Widespread introgression across a phylogeny of 155 Drosophila genomes

A Suvorov, BY Kim, J Wang, EE Armstrong, D Peede… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Genome-scale sequence data have invigorated the study of hybridization and introgression,
particularly in animals. However, outside of a few notable cases, we lack systematic tests for …

Meiotic Drive and Speciation

JB Searle… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Sex chromosome turnover plays an important role in the maintenance of barriers to post-speciation introgression in willows

ZQ Xue, WL Applequist, E Hörandl, L He - Evolution Letters, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Almost all species in the genus Salix (willow) are dioecious and willows have variable sex-
determining systems, the role of this variation in maintaining species barriers is relatively …

Do sex-linked male meiotic drivers contribute to intrinsic hybrid incompatibilities? Recent empirical studies from flies and rodents

J Kitano, K Yoshida - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2023 - Elsevier
Intrinsic hybrid incompatibility is one of the important isolating barriers between species. In
organisms with sex chromosomes, intrinsic hybrid incompatibility often follows two rules …

Comparative genomics illuminates karyotype and sex chromosome evolution of sharks

J Wu, F Liu, J Jiao, H Luo, S Fan, J Liu, H Wang, N Cui… - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Chondrichthyes is an important lineage to reconstruct the evolutionary history of vertebrates.
Here, we analyzed genome synteny for six chondrichthyan chromosome-level genomes …

Chromosomal rearrangements and the first indication of an ♀X1X1X2X2/♂X1X2Y sex chromosome system in Rineloricaria fishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes)

L Marajó, PF Viana, AMV Ferreira… - Journal of Fish …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rineloricaria is the most diverse genus within the freshwater fish subfamily Loricariinae, and
it is widely distributed in the Neotropical region. Despite limited cytogenetic data, records …

Easy‐to‐use R functions to separate reduced‐representation genomic datasets into sex‐linked and autosomal loci, and conduct sex assignment

DA Robledo‐Ruiz, L Austin, JN Amos… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying sex‐linked markers in genomic datasets is important because their presence in
supposedly neutral autosomal datasets can result in incorrect estimates of genetic diversity …

Admixture of evolutionary rates across a butterfly hybrid zone

T **ong, X Li, M Yago, J Mallet - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Hybridization is a major evolutionary force that can erode genetic differentiation between
species, whereas reproductive isolation maintains such differentiation. In studying a hybrid …

Chromosomal conservatism vs chromosomal megaevolution: enigma of karyotypic evolution in Lepidoptera

EA Pazhenkova, VA Lukhtanov - Chromosome Research, 2023 - Springer
In the evolution of many organisms, periods of slow genome reorganization (= chromosomal
conservatism) are interrupted by bursts of numerous chromosomal changes (= chromosomal …