Mechanisms and evolutionary dynamics of sex-determination systems are of particular
interest in insect vectors of human pathogens like mosquitoes because novel control …

The preservation of a homomorphic sex-determining chromosome in some organisms
without transformation into a heteromorphic sex chromosome is a long-standing enigma in …

Background Aedes aegypti is the principal vector of several important arboviruses. Among
the methods of vector control to limit transmission of disease are genetic strategies that …

In many taxa, sex chromosomes are heteromorphic and largely non-recombining.
Evolutionary models predict that spread of recombination suppression on the Y …

An endogenous meiotic driver in the dengue and yellow fever vector mosquito Aedes
aegypti can cause highly male-biased sex ratio distortion in crosses from suitable genetic …

Abstract Background Some populations of West African Aedes aegypti, the dengue and zika
vector, are reproductively incompatible; our earlier study showed that divergence and …

Sexual reproduction is critical to the survival and evolution of many organisms including
mosquitoes. Sex determination in insects is often initiated by a fast-evolving primary signal …

Y chromosome function, structure and evolution is poorly understood in many species,
including the Anopheles genus of mosquitoes—an emerging model system for studying …

Understanding how phenotypic differences between males and females arise from the sex-
biased expression of nearly identical genomes can reveal important insights into the biology …

The mosquito Anopheles gambiae has heteromorphic sex chromosomes, while the
mosquito Aedes aegypti has homomorphic sex chromosomes. We use retrotransposed …