Development of a confinable gene drive system in the human disease vector Aedes aegypti

M Li, T Yang, NP Kandul, M Bui, S Gamez, R Raban… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Aedes aegypti is the principal mosquito vector for many arboviruses that increasingly infect
millions of people every year. With an escalating burden of infections and the relative failure …

Conserved ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes in Caribbean croaking geckos (Aristelliger: Sphaerodactylidae)

SE Keating, AH Griffing, SV Nielsen… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Current understanding of sex chromosome evolution is largely dependent on species with
highly degenerated, heteromorphic sex chromosomes, but by studying species with recently …

Exome-wide association study reveals largely distinct gene sets underlying specific resistance to dengue virus types 1 and 3 in Aedes aegypti

LB Dickson, SH Merkling, M Gautier, A Ghozlane… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Although specific interactions between host and pathogen genotypes have been well
documented in invertebrates, the identification of host genes involved in discriminating …

Disagreement in FST estimators: A case study from sex chromosomes

WJ Gammerdinger, MA Toups… - Molecular ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sewall Wright developed FST for describing population differentiation and it has since been
extended to many novel applications, including the detection of homomorphic sex …

[图书][B] Sex Chromosome Evolution in Blow Flies

AA Andere - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Chromosomal mechanisms of sex determination vary greatly in phylogenetically closely
related species, indicative of rapid evolutionary rates. Sex chromosome karyotypes are …

A dense linkage map for a large repetitive genome: discovery of the sex-determining region in hybridising fire-bellied toads (Bombina bombina and B. variegata)

B Nürnberger, SJE Baird, D Čížková, A Bryjová… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Hybrid zones that result from secondary contact between diverged populations offer
unparalleled insight into the genetic architecture of emerging reproductive barriers and so …