This review discusses (1) the consequences of sex chromosome meiotic drive on population
structure,(2) the evolution of segregation distortion systems,(3) sex ratio distortion in different …

Nonintercalating DNA-binding ligands: Specificity of the interaction and their use as tools in
biophysical, biochemical and biological investigations of the genetic material - ScienceDirect Skip to …

Postzygotic reproductive barriers such as sterility and lethality of hybrids are important for
establishing and maintaining reproductive isolation between species. Identifying the causal …

Recent genome sequencing papers have given genome sizes of 180 Mb for Drosophila
melanogaster Iso‐1 and 125 Mb for Arabidopsis thaliana Columbia. The former agrees with …

The origin recognition complex (ORC) is required to initiate eukaryotic DNA replication and
also engages in transcriptional silencing in S. cerevisiae. We observed a striking preferential …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the functional aspects of satellite DNA and
heterochromatin. Despite all attempts to formulate simple rules governing satellite evolution …

The size of eukaryotic genomes can vary by several orders of magnitude, yet genome size
does not correlate with the number of genes nor with the size or complexity of the organism …

The eukaryotic genome is packaged into transcriptionally active euchromatin and silent
heterochromatin, with most studies focused on the former encompassing the majority of …

In this review of the knowledge of heterochromatin in Drosophila melanogaster, the structure
of the heterochromatin is described, and various functional elements (the Y-chromosome …

The behavior of parental chromosomes during the first mitosis of Drosophila simulans
zygotes obtained from unidirectional incompatible crosses is described and it is …