Meiotic Drive and Speciation

JB Searle… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Meiotic drive is the biased transmission of alleles from heterozygotes, contrary to Mendel's
laws, and reflects intragenomic conflict rather than organism-level Darwinian selection …

Recurrent duplication and diversification of a vital DNA repair gene family across Drosophila

CL Brand, GT Oliver, IZ Farkas… - Molecular biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Maintaining genome integrity is vital for organismal survival and reproduction. Essential,
broadly conserved DNA repair pathways actively preserve genome integrity. However, many …

Genetic variation in recalcitrant repetitive regions of the Drosophila melanogaster genome

HG Shukla, M Chakraborty, JJ Emerson - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many essential functions of organisms are encoded in highly repetitive genomic regions,
including histones involved in DNA packaging, centromeres that are core components of …

The resolution of evolutionary conflicts within species

JA Ågren, G Arnqvist, L Rowe - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Evolutionary conflicts of interest occur at all levels, scales and forms of biological
organization. They are a fundamental component of the living world and range from conflicts …

The assembly of Y chromosome reveals amplification of genes regulating male fertility in Bactrocera dorsalis

S Wu, J Wu, Q Lei, D He, X Jiang, C Ye, D Wei… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
BACKGROUND: The oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis is an invasive pest causing
considerable ecological and economic damage worldwide. The Y chromosome is an …

Investigating the Silencing Mechanism of the X-Chromosome Meiotic Driver, Ste, by the Y-Chromosome lncRNA, Su (Ste), in Drosophila melanogaster

L Ma - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are over 200 nucleotide long transcripts that are not
translated into protein. As the most diverse and abundant class of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) …