SJ Gould and R. Lewontin in their famous “Spandrels paper”(1979) argued that many
anatomical elements arise in evolution not due to their “current utility” but rather due to other …

We investigated genome folding across the eukaryotic tree of life. We find two types of three-
dimensional (3D) genome architectures at the chromosome scale. Each type appears and …

Genome structural variations within species are rare. How selective constraints preserve
gene order and chromosome structure is a central question in evolutionary biology that …

Muntjac deer have experienced drastic karyotype changes during their speciation, making it
an ideal model for studying mechanisms and functional consequences of mammalian …

Meiotic drive is the biased transmission of alleles from heterozygotes, contrary to Mendel's
laws, and reflects intragenomic conflict rather than organism-level Darwinian selection …

Organismal evolution displays complex dynamics in phase and scale which seem to trend
towards increasing biocomplexity and diversity. For over a century, such amazing dynamics …

In eukaryotic organisms, genetic information is usually carried on multiple chromosomes.
Whether and how the number and configuration of chromosomes affect organismal fitness …

The eukaryotic cell division machinery must rapidly and reproducibly duplicate and partition
the cell's chromosomes in a carefully coordinated process. However, chromosome numbers …

The red brocket deer Mazama americana Erxleben, 1777 is considered a polyphyletic
complex of cryptic species with wide chromosomal divergence. Evidence indicates that the …

High throughput chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) of leukocyte DNA was used to
investigate the evolutionary stability of chromatin conformation at the chromosomal level in …