Changes in chromosome numbers may strongly affect reproductive barriers, because
individuals heterozygous for distinct karyotypes are typically expected to be at least partially …

Insects are major contributors to our understanding of the interaction between transposable
elements (TEs) and their hosts, owing to seminal discoveries, as well as to the growing …

Summary Butterflies (Papilionoidea), with over 18,000 described species [1], have
captivated naturalists and scientists for centuries. They play a central role in the study of …

Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic sequences that can move, multiply, and often
form sizable fractions of vertebrate genomes. Fish belong to a unique group of vertebrates …

The evolution and great diversity of genome size has been of long-standing interest to
biologists, but has seldom been investigated on a broad phylogenetic scale. Here we …

Under the neutral theory, genetic diversity is expected to increase with population size.
While comparative analyses have consistently failed to find strong relationships between …

The causes and consequences of genome reduction in animals are unclear because our
understanding of this process mostly relies on lineages with often exceptionally high rates of …

Karyotypes are generally conserved between closely related species and large
chromosome rearrangements typically have negative fitness consequences in …

Recombination is a key molecular mechanism that has profound implications on both micro-
and macroevolutionary processes. However, the determinants of recombination rate …

Evolutionary relationships have remained unresolved in many well-studied groups, even
though advances in next-generation sequencing and analysis, using approaches such as …