Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

M Exposito-Alonso, TR Booker, L Czech, L Gillespie… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change are reducing species' geographic ranges,
increasing extinction risk and losses of species' genetic diversity. Although preserving …

[PDF][PDF] An ancestral balanced inversion polymorphism confers global adaptation

M Kapun, ED Mitchell, TJ Kawecki… - … Biology and Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Since the pioneering work of Dobzhansky in the 1930s and 1940s, many chromosomal
inversions have been identified, but how they contribute to adaptation remains poorly …

Rapid evolutionary change, constraints and the maintenance of polymorphism in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

A Glaser‐Schmitt, TJS Ramnarine… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Allele frequencies can shift rapidly within natural populations. Under certain conditions,
repeated rapid allele frequency shifts can lead to the long‐term maintenance of …

Structure Elucidation of the First Sex‐Inducing Pheromone of a Diatom

FA Klapper, C Kiel, P Bellstedt… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Diatoms are abundant unicellular microalgae, responsible for≈ 20% of global
photosynthetic CO2 fixation. Nevertheless, we know little about fundamental aspects of their …

Temperature effects on cellular host-microbe interactions explain continent-wide endosymbiont prevalence

MTJ Hague, JD Shropshire, CN Caldwell, JP Statz… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Endosymbioses influence host physiology, reproduction, and fitness, but these relationships
require efficient microbe transmission between host generations to persist. Maternally …

Population genomics reveals mechanisms and dynamics of de novo expressed open reading frame emergence in Drosophila melanogaster

A Grandchamp, L Kühl, M Lebherz… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
Novel genes are essential for evolutionary innovations and differ substantially even between
closely related species. Recently, multiple studies across many taxa showed that some …

A Population Genomic Assessment of Three Decades of Evolution in a Natural Drosophila Population

JD Lange, H Bastide, JB Lack… - Molecular Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Population genetics seeks to illuminate the forces sha** genetic variation, often based on
a single snapshot of genomic variation. However, utilizing multiple sampling times to study …

Quantification and modeling of turnover dynamics of de novo transcripts in Drosophila melanogaster

A Grandchamp, P Czuppon… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Most of the transcribed eukaryotic genomes are composed of non-coding transcripts. Among
these transcripts, some are newly transcribed when compared to outgroups and are referred …

The utility of Drosophila melanogaster as a fungal infection model

CD Mpamhanga, I Kounatidis - Frontiers in Immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Invasive fungal diseases have profound effects upon human health and are on increase
globally. The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022 published the fungal priority list …

The disciplinary matrix of holobiont biology

SR Bordenstein, The Holobiont Biology Network - Science, 2024 - science.org
The importance of microbiomes in host biology guides an intriguing convergence of micro-
and macrobiological worlds. Consequently, the multidisciplinary framework of holobiont …