Age-dependent male mating investment in Drosophila pseudoobscura.
PLoS ONE, 2014 Male mating investment can strongly influence fitness gained from a mating. Yet, male mating investment often changes with age. Life history theory predicts that mating investment should increase with age, and males should become less discriminatory ...
Sumit Dhole, Karin S Pfennig
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Mating system variation drives rapid evolution of the female transcriptome in Drosophila pseudoobscura [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2014 Interactions between the sexes are believed to be a potent source of selection on sex-specific evolution. The way in which sexual interactions influence male investment is much studied, but effects on females are more poorly understood.
Anderson +61 more
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Assessment of rival males through the use of multiple sensory cues in the fruitfly Drosophila pseudoobscura. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Environments vary stochastically, and animals need to behave in ways that best fit the conditions in which they find themselves. The social environment is particularly variable, and responding appropriately to it can be vital for an animal's success ...
Chris P Maguire +2 more
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Evidence for Stabilizing Selection on Codon Usage in Chromosomal Rearrangements ofDrosophila pseudoobscura [PDF]
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2014 There has been a renewed interest in investigating the role of stabilizing selection acting on genome-wide traits such as codon usage bias. Codon bias, when synonymous codons are used at unequal frequencies, occurs in a wide variety of taxa.
Zachary L. Fuller +15 more
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Parametric alignment of Drosophila genomes. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2006 The classic algorithms of Needleman-Wunsch and Smith-Waterman find a maximum a posteriori probability alignment for a pair hidden Markov model (PHMM). To process large genomes that have undergone complex genome rearrangements, almost all existing whole ...
Colin N Dewey +4 more
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Intra-specific regulatory variation in Drosophila pseudoobscura.
PLoS ONE, 2013 It is generally accepted that gene regulation serves an important role in determining the phenotype. To shed light on the evolutionary forces operating on gene regulation, previous studies mainly focused on the expression differences between species and ...
Anton Suvorov +5 more
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How hot are drosophila hotspots? examining recombination rate variation and associations with nucleotide diversity, divergence, and maternal age in Drosophila pseudoobscura. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Fine scale meiotic recombination maps have uncovered a large amount of variation in crossover rate across the genomes of many species, and such variation in mammalian and yeast genomes is concentrated to
Brenda Manzano-Winkler +2 more
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Opposite environmental and genetic influences on body size in North American Drosophila pseudoobscura [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2015 BACKGROUND: Populations of a species often differ in key traits. However, it is rarely known whether these differences are associated with genetic variation and evolved differences between populations, or are instead simply a plastic response to ...
Price, Tom AR +4 more
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Testes Proteases Expression and Hybrid Male Sterility Between Subspecies of Drosophila pseudoobscura [PDF]
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2019 Hybrid male sterility (HMS) is a form of postmating postzygotic isolation among closely related species that can act as an effective barrier to gene flow.
Doaa Alhazmi +2 more
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Extensive exchange of transposable elements in the Drosophila pseudoobscura group
Mobile DNA, 2018 Background As species diverge, so does their transposable element (TE) content. Within a genome, TE families may eventually become dormant due to host-silencing mechanisms, natural selection and the accumulation of inactive copies.
Tom Hill, Andrea J. Betancourt
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