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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Meiotic transmission of Drosophila pseudoobscura chromosomal arrangements. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 Drosophila pseudoobscura harbors a rich gene arrangement polymorphism on the third chromosome generated by a series of overlapping paracentric inversions.
Richard P Meisel, Stephen W Schaeffer
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PLoS Genetics, 2009 In nature, closely related species may hybridize while still retaining their distinctive identities. Chromosomal regions that experience reduced recombination in hybrids, such as within inversions, have been hypothesized to contribute to the maintenance ...
Rob J Kulathinal +2 more
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Mistaken Identity: Another Bias in the Use of Relative Genetic Divergence Measures for Detecting Interspecies Introgression. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Measures of genetic divergence have long been used to identify evolutionary processes operating within and between species. However, recent reviews have described a bias in the use of relative divergence measures towards incorrectly identifying genomic ...
Kathryn R Ritz, Mohamed A F Noor
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Thirty Years of the Biology of Spermatozoa: The Rise and Future of an Evolutionary Paradigm. [PDF]
Ecol EvolA sperm bundle taken from the seminal vescicles of the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus. Image credit: Leigh W. Simmons. ABSTRACT In the early 1970s, Geoff Parker recognised that because females frequently mate with multiple males, competition for fertilizations will impose significant sexual selection on males and their ejaculates.
Simmons LW.
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Sex-specific embryonic gene expression in species with newly evolved sex chromosomes. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2014 Sex chromosome dosage differences between females and males are a significant form of natural genetic variation in many species. Like many species with chromosomal sex determination, Drosophila females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and ...
Susan E Lott +4 more
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Mind the gap: upgrading genomes with Pacific Biosciences RS long-read sequencing technology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Many genomes have been sequenced to high-quality draft status using Sanger capillary electrophoresis and/or newer short-read sequence data and whole genome assembly techniques. However, even the best draft genomes contain gaps and other imperfections due
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No evidence for learned mating discrimination in male
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2006 Background Since females often pay a higher cost for heterospecific matings, mate discrimination and species recognition are driven primarily by female choice.
Kandul Ekaterina V +3 more
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SELECTION BY FERTILITY IN DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA [PDF]
Genetics, 1974 ABSTRACT Fertility, the component of selection due to female fecundity and male mating success, differed significantly among the ST/ST, ST/AR, and AR/AR karyotypes in experimental populations and varied with karyotypic frequency. In relation to ST/AR, ST/ST females and males had higher fertilities at low frequency; AR/AR males and ...
W W, Anderson, T K, Watanabe
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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
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