Understanding the genetic basis of variation in meiotic recombination: past, present, and future

SE Johnston - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Meiotic recombination is a fundamental feature of sexually reproducing species. It is often
required for proper chromosome segregation and plays important role in adaptation and the …

[HTML][HTML] Platypus and echidna genomes reveal mammalian biology and evolution

Y Zhou, L Shearwin-Whyatt, J Li, Z Song, T Hayakawa… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Egg-laying mammals (monotremes) are the only extant mammalian outgroup to therians
(marsupial and eutherian animals) and provide key insights into mammalian evolution 1, 2 …

Variation of the adaptive substitution rate between species and within genomes

AF Moutinho, T Bataillon, JY Dutheil - Evolutionary Ecology, 2020 - Springer
The importance of adaptive mutations in molecular evolution is extensively debated. Recent
developments in population genomics allow inferring rates of adaptive mutations by fitting a …

Island songbirds as windows into evolution in small populations

T Leroy, M Rousselle, MK Tilak, AE Caizergues… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Due to their limited ranges and inherent isolation, island species have long been recognized
as crucial systems for tackling a range of evolutionary questions, including in the early study …

The heterogeneity in the landscape of gene dominance in maize is accompanied by unique chromatin environments

L Yin, G Xu, J Yang, M Zhao - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Subgenome dominance after whole-genome duplication (WGD) has been observed in many
plant species. However, the degree to which the chromatin environment affects this bias has …

Is adaptation limited by mutation? A timescale-dependent effect of genetic diversity on the adaptive substitution rate in animals

M Rousselle, P Simion, MK Tilak, E Figuet… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Whether adaptation is limited by the beneficial mutation supply is a long-standing question
of evolutionary genetics, which is more generally related to the determination of the adaptive …

How Much Does Ne Vary Among Species?

N Galtier, M Rousselle - Genetics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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Evaluation of methods to detect shifts in directional selection at the genome scale

L Duchemin, V Lanore, P Veber… - Molecular Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Identifying the footprints of selection in coding sequences can inform about the importance
and function of individual sites. Analyses of the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous …

Using GC Content to Compare Recombination Patterns on the Sex Chromosomes and Autosomes of the Guppy, Poecilia reticulata, and Its Close Outgroup Species

D Charlesworth, Y Zhang, R Bergero… - Molecular Biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Genetic and physical mapping of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) have shown that
recombination patterns differ greatly between males and females. Crossover events occur …

Hunting for beneficial mutations: conditioning on SIFT scores when estimating the distribution of fitness effect of new mutations

J Chen, T Bataillon, S Glémin… - Genome Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The distribution of fitness effects (DFE) of new mutations is a key parameter of molecular
evolution. The DFE can in principle be estimated by comparing the site frequency spectra …