Mosquito-borne illnesses represent a significant global health peril, resulting in
approximately one million fatalities annually. West Nile, dengue, Zika, and malaria are …

Hundreds of vertebrate genomes have been sequenced and assembled to date. However,
most sequencing projects have ignored the sex chromosomes unique to the heterogametic …

Genetic control–the deliberate introduction of genetic traits to control a pest or vector
population–offers a powerful tool to augment conventional mosquito control tools that have …

Background Heteromorphic sex chromosomes have evolved repeatedly across diverse
species. Suppression of recombination between X and Y chromosomes leads to …

A dominant male-determining locus (M-locus) establishes the male sex (M/m) in the yellow
fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Nix, a gene in the M-locus, was shown to be a male …

The satellitome of the beetle Chrysolina americana Linneo, 1758 has been characterized
through chromosomal analysis, genomic sequencing, and bioinformatics tools. C-banding …

While short-read sequencing technology has resulted in a sharp increase in the number of
species with genome assemblies, these assemblies are typically highly fragmented …

The molecular pathways controlling gender are highly variable and have been identified in
only a few nonmammalian model species. In many insects, maleness is conferred by a Y …

Drive is a process of accelerated inheritance from one generation to the next that allows
some genes to spread rapidly through populations even if they do not contribute to or …

Deep coalescence and introgression make it challenging to infer phylogenetic relationships
among closely related species that arose through radiative speciation events. Despite …