One of the most striking patterns of genome structure is the tight, typically negative,
association between transposable elements (TEs) and meiotic recombination rates. While …

Chromosomal inversions have the potential to play an important role in evolution by
reducing recombination between favorable combinations of alleles. Until recently, however …

James A. Shapiro proposes an important new paradigm for understanding biological
evolution, the core organizing principle of biology. Shapiro introduces crucial new molecular …

Drosophila has been studied as a biological model for many years and many discoveries in
biology rely on this species. Research on transposable elements (TEs) is not an exception …

Background Many plant-pathogenic fungi have a tendency towards genome size expansion,
mostly driven by increasing content of transposable elements (TEs). Through comparative …

Transposable elements (TEs) were first discovered more than 50 years ago, but were totally
ignored for a long time. Over the last few decades they have gradually attracted increasing …

Transposable elements (TEs) and satellite DNAs (satDNAs) are typically identified as major
repetitive DNA components in eukaryotic genomes. TEs are DNA segments able to move …

Since Darwin first noted that the process of speciation was indeed the “mystery of mysteries,”
scientists have tried to develop testable models for the development of reproductive …

Reference-quality genomes of both sexes are essential for studying sex determination and
sex-chromosome evolution, as their gene contents and expression profiles differ. Here, we …

Eusocial Hymenoptera have the highest recombination rates among all multicellular animals
studied so far, but it is unclear why this is and how this affects the biology of individual …