There is a growing appreciation that chromosome inversions affect rates of adaptation,
speciation, and the evolution of sex chromosomes. Comparative genomic studies have …

Supergenes are sets of genes that are inherited as a single marker and encode complex
phenotypes through their joint action. They are identified in an increasing number of …

Crossing over is well known to have profound effects on patterns of genetic diversity and
genome evolution. Far less direct attention has been paid to another distinct outcome of …

The association between fitness-related phenotypic traits and an environmental gradient
offers one of the best opportunities to study the interplay between natural selection and …

Populations occurring in similar habitats and displaying similar phenotypes are increasingly
used to explore parallel evolution at the molecular level. This generally ignores the …

Since the pioneering work of Dobzhansky in the 1930s and 1940s, many chromosomal
inversions have been identified, but how they contribute to adaptation remains poorly …

The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer,
and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding …

Chromosomal inversions, structural mutations that reverse a segment of a chromosome,
cause suppression of recombination in the heterozygous state. Several studies have shown …

The gene arrangements of Drosophila have played a prominent role in the history of
evolutionary biology from the original quantification of genetic diversity to current studies of …

Chromosomal inversions disrupt recombination in heterozygotes by both reducing crossing-
over within inverted regions and increasing it elsewhere in the genome. The reduction of …