Transposable elements are mobile genetic units that exhibit broad diversity in their structure
and transposition mechanisms. Transposable elements occupy a large fraction of many …

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

Transposable elements (TEs) are present in roughly all genomes. These mobile DNA
sequences are able to invade genomes and their impact on genome evolution is substantial …

We have sequenced the genome of a second Drosophila species, Drosophila
pseudoobscura, and compared this to the genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster, a …

That closely related species often differ by chromosomal inversions was discovered by
Sturtevant and Plunkett in 1926. Our knowledge of how these inversions originate is still very …

Background Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are an important model system in ecology
and evolution. A high-quality chromosomal genome assembly is available for the monarch …

Paracentric chromosomal inversions are major architects of organismal evolution and have
been associated with adaptations relevant to malaria transmission in anopheline …

Background Transposable elements (TEs) are responsible for the generation of
chromosomal inversions in several groups of organisms. However, in Drosophila and other …

The development of genetic maps multiple species of Drosophila to understand the basis for
species formation became problematic because visible mutations were not easily compared …

Adaptive changes in nature occur by a variety of mechanisms, and Drosophila chromosomal
inversions was one of the first studied examples. However, the precise genetic causes of the …