Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes

D Dedukh, A Krasikova - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Genome stability is a crucial feature of eukaryotic organisms because its alteration
drastically affects the normal development and survival of cells and the organism as a …

[PDF][PDF] A record of alien Pelophylax species and widespread mitochondrial DNA transfer in Kaliningradskaya Oblast'(the Baltic coast, Russia)

SN Litvinchuk, AY Ivanov, SA Lukonina… - BioInvasions …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Alien species can strongly impact local environments and compete against native species,
which can lead to their extinction. Marsh frogs of the Pelophylax ridibundus complex are one …

Genetic structure, morphological variation, and gametogenic peculiarities in water frogs (Pelophylax) from northeastern European Russia

AO Svinin, DV Dedukh, LJ Borkin… - Journal of Zoological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The edible frog, Pelophylax esculentus, is a hybrid form that reproduces via clonal
propagation of only one of the parental genomes through generations of hybrids while the …

Genome elimination from the germline cells in diploid and triploid male water frogs Pelophylax esculentus

M Chmielewska, M Kaźmierczak… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hybridogenesis is a hemiclonal reproductive strategy in diploid and triploid hybrids. Our
study model is a frog P. esculentus (diploid RL and triploids RLL and RRL), a natural hybrid …

Micronuclei in germ cells of hybrid frogs from Pelophylax esculentus complex contain gradually eliminated chromosomes

D Dedukh, S Riumin, M Chmielewska… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
In most organisms, cells typically maintain genome integrity, as radical genome
reorganization leads to dramatic consequences. However, certain organisms, ranging from …

Importance of Genetic–Fitness Correlations for the Conservation of Amphibians

H Pröhl, A Rodríguez - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Threatened animal species live in small and isolated populations, often
with a reduced number of individuals and reduced genetic diversity. In this review, we …

Uniparental nuclear inheritance following bisexual mating in fungi

V Yadav, S Sun, J Heitman - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Some remarkable animal species require an opposite-sex partner for their sexual
development but discard the partner's genome before gamete formation, generating hemi …

Paramecium Diversity and a New Member of the Paramecium aurelia Species Complex Described from Mexico

A Potekhin, R Mayén-Estrada - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Paramecium (Ciliophora) is an ideal model organism to study the biogeography of protists.
However, many regions of the world, such as Central America, are still neglected in …

A cyclical switch of gametogenic pathways in hybrids depends on the ploidy level

D Dedukh, A Marta, RY Myung, MH Ko… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The cellular and molecular mechanisms governing sexual reproduction are conserved
across eukaryotes. Nevertheless, hybridization can disrupt these mechanisms, leading to …

From asexuality to sexual reproduction: cyclical switch of gametogenic pathways in hybrids depends on ploidy level

D Dedukh, A Marta, RY Myung, MH Ko, DS Choi… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The cellular and molecular mechanisms governing sexual reproduction is highly conserved
across eukaryotes. Nevertheless, hybridization can disrupt such machinery leading to …