Insect genomes: progress and challenges

F Li, X Zhao, M Li, K He, C Huang, Y Zhou… - Insect molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the wake of constant improvements in sequencing technologies, numerous insect
genomes have been sequenced. Currently, 1219 insect genome‐sequencing projects have …

Variation in recombination rate: adaptive or not?

KR Ritz, MAF Noor, ND Singh - Trends in Genetics, 2017 - cell.com
Rates of meiotic recombination are widely variable both within and among species.
However, the functional significance of this variation remains largely unknown. Is the …

Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation

NB Edelman, PB Frandsen, M Miyagi, B Clavijo… - Science, 2019 - science.org
We used 20 de novo genome assemblies to probe the speciation history and architecture of
gene flow in rapidly radiating Heliconius butterflies. Our tests to distinguish incomplete …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae

Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes Consortium - Nature, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The sustainability of malaria control in Africa is threatened by the rise of insecticide
resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit the disease 1. To gain a deeper …

Mutation load at a mimicry supergene sheds new light on the evolution of inversion polymorphisms

P Jay, M Chouteau, A Whibley, H Bastide… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chromosomal inversions are ubiquitous in genomes and often coordinate complex
phenotypes, such as the covariation of behavior and morphology in many birds, fishes …

Recombination rate variation shapes barriers to introgression across butterfly genomes

SH Martin, JW Davey, C Salazar, CD Jiggins - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Hybridisation and introgression can dramatically alter the relationships among groups of
species, leading to phylogenetic discordance across the genome and between populations …

[PDF][PDF] Whole-genome resequencing of worldwide wild and domestic sheep elucidates genetic diversity, introgression, and agronomically important loci

FH Lv, YH Cao, GJ Liu, LY Luo, R Lu… - Molecular biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Domestic sheep and their wild relatives harbor substantial genetic variants that can form the
backbone of molecular breeding, but their genome landscapes remain understudied. Here …

Local PCA shows how the effect of population structure differs along the genome

H Li, P Ralph - Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Principal component analysis (PCA) is often used to describe overall population structure—
patterns of relatedness arising from past demographic history—among a set of genomes …

Clines on the seashore: The genomic architecture underlying rapid divergence in the face of gene flow

AM Westram, M Rafajlović, P Chaube, R Faria… - Evolution …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Adaptive divergence and speciation may happen despite opposition by gene flow.
Identifying the genomic basis underlying divergence with gene flow is a major task in …

Hybridization and gene flow in the mega-pest lineage of moth, Helicoverpa

CJ Anderson, JG Oakeshott, WT Tay… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Within the mega-pest lineage of heliothine moths are a number of polyphagous, highly
mobile species for which the exchange of adaptive traits through hybridization would affect …