Mechanisms of intrinsic postzygotic isolation: from traditional genic and chromosomal views to genomic and epigenetic perspectives

R Reifová, SL Ament-Velásquez… - Cold Spring …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Intrinsic postzygotic isolation typically appears as reduced viability or fertility of interspecific
hybrids caused by genetic incompatibilities between diverged parental genomes …

Structural variants and speciation: multiple processes at play

EL Berdan, TG Aubier, S Cozzolino… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Research on the genomic architecture of speciation has increasingly revealed the
importance of structural variants (SVs) that affect the presence, abundance, position, and/or …

Reference genome assemblies reveal the origin and evolution of allohexaploid oat

Y Peng, H Yan, L Guo, C Deng, C Wang, Y Wang… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Common oat (Avena sativa) is an important cereal crop serving as a valuable source of
forage and human food. Although reference genomes of many important crops have been …

[PDF][PDF] Going beyond SNPs: The role of structural genomic variants in adaptive evolution and species diversification.

M Wellenreuther, C Mérot, E Berdan… - Molecular ecology, 2019 - bio.ulaval.ca
Although single‐nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) were initially thought to make‐up the
majority of selectable variation (Morin, Luikart, & Wayne, 2004; Sachidanandam et al …

Inversion invasions: when the genetic basis of local adaptation is concentrated within inversions in the face of gene flow

SM Schaal, BC Haller… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Across many species where inversions have been implicated in local adaptation, genomes
often evolve to contain multiple, large inversions that arise early in divergence. Why this …

A complete, telomere-to-telomere human genome sequence presents new opportunities for evolutionary genomics

Y Mao, G Zhang - Nature methods, 2022 - nature.com
The release of the first telomere-to-telomere (T2T) human genome sequence marks a
milestone for human genomics research and holds promise of complete genomes for …

How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process

EL Berdan, NH Barton, R Butlin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Inversions are structural mutations that reverse the sequence of a chromosome segment
and reduce the effective rate of recombination in the heterozygous state. They play a major …

Predicting thermal adaptation by looking into populations' genomic past

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Molecular evolution offers an insightful theory to interpret the genomic consequences of
thermal adaptation to previous events of climate change beyond range shifts. However …

Deleterious mutation accumulation and the long-term fate of chromosomal inversions

EL Berdan, A Blanckaert, RK Butlin, C Bank - PLoS genetics, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Chromosomal inversions contribute widely to adaptation and speciation, yet they present a
unique evolutionary puzzle as both their allelic content and frequency evolve in a feedback …

Inversions and parallel evolution

AM Westram, R Faria… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Local adaptation leads to differences between populations within a species. In many
systems, similar environmental contrasts occur repeatedly, sometimes driving parallel …