Widespread Positive Selection Drives Differentiation of Centromeric Proteins in the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup

EA Beck, A Llopart - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Rapid evolution of centromeric satellite repeats is thought to cause compensatory amino
acid evolution in interacting centromere-associated kinetochore proteins. Cid, a protein that …

Parallel Faster-X Evolution of Gene Expression and Protein Sequences in Drosophila: Beyond Differences in Expression Properties and Protein Interactions

A Llopart - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Population genetics models predict that the X (or Z) chromosome will evolve at faster rates
than the autosomes in XY (or ZW) systems. Studies of molecular evolution using large …