The genomic consequences of hybridization

BM Moran, C Payne, Q Langdon, DL Powell… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
In the past decade, advances in genome sequencing have allowed researchers to uncover
the history of hybridization in diverse groups of species, including our own. Although the …

Meiotic drive mechanisms: lessons from Drosophila

C Courret, CH Chang, KHC Wei… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Meiotic drivers are selfish genetic elements that bias their transmission into gametes, often
to the detriment of the rest of the genome. The resulting intragenomic conflicts triggered by …

Widespread introgression across a phylogeny of 155 Drosophila genomes

A Suvorov, BY Kim, J Wang, EE Armstrong, D Peede… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Genome-scale sequence data have invigorated the study of hybridization and introgression,
particularly in animals. However, outside of a few notable cases, we lack systematic tests for …

The wild species genome ancestry of domestic chickens

RA Lawal, SH Martin, K Vanmechelen, A Vereijken… - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Hybridisation and introgression play key roles in the evolutionary history of
animal species. They are commonly observed within several orders in wild birds. The …

The role of conflict in shaping plant biodiversity

JM Coughlan - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although intrinsic postzygotic reproductive barriers can play a fundamental role in
speciation, their underlying evolutionary causes are widely debated. One hypothesis is that …

Rapid evolutionary dynamics of an expanding family of meiotic drive factors and their hpRNA suppressors

J Vedanayagam, CJ Lin, EC Lai - Nature ecology & evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Meiotic drivers are a class of selfish genetic elements whose existence is frequently hidden
due to concomitant suppressor systems. Accordingly, we know little of their evolutionary …

Evolution of genome structure in the Drosophila simulans species complex

M Chakraborty, CH Chang, DE Khost… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
The rapid evolution of repetitive DNA sequences, including satellite DNA, tandem
duplications, and transposable elements, underlies phenotypic evolution and contributes to …

Satellite DNA-mediated diversification of a sex-ratio meiotic drive gene family in Drosophila

CA Muirhead, DC Presgraves - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Sex chromosomes are susceptible to the evolution of selfish meiotic drive elements that bias
transmission and distort progeny sex ratios. Conflict between such sex-ratio drivers and the …

Hybrid Sterility, Genetic Conflict and Complex Speciation: Lessons From the Drosophila simulans Clade Species

DC Presgraves, CD Meiklejohn - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The three fruitfly species of the Drosophila simulans clade—D. simulans, D. mauritiana, and
D. sechellia—have served as important models in speciation genetics for over 40 years …

The extent of adaptive wild introgression in crops

GM Janzen, L Wang, MB Hufford - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The study of crop evolution has focused primarily on the process of initial domestication.
Post‐domestication adaptation during the expansion of crops from their centers of origin has …