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Sex-specific ultraviolet radiation tolerance across Drosophila
James E. Titus-McQuillan, Brandon A. Turner, Rebekah L. Rogers
The genetic basis of phenotypic differences between species is among the most longstanding questions in evolutionary biology. How new genes form and the processes selection acts to…
Transcriptome Complexities Across Eukaryotes
James E. Titus-McQuillan, Adalena V. Nanni, Lauren M. McIntyre +1
Genomic complexity is a growing field of evolution, with case studies for comparative evolutionary analyses in model and emerging non-model systems. Understanding complexity and th…
Chromosomal rearrangements and transposable elements in locally adapted island Drosophila
Brandon A. Turner, Theresa R. Erlenbach, Nicholas B. Stewart +3
Chromosomal rearrangements, particularly those mediated by transposable elements (TEs), can drive adaptive evolution by creating chimeric genes, inducing de novo gene formation, or…
New gene formation in hybrid Drosophila
Rebekah L. Rogers, Cathy C. Moore, Nicholas B. Stewart
The origin of new genes is among the most fundamental processes underlying genetic innovation. The substrate of new genetic material available defines the outcomes of evolutionary…
Strong, recent selective sweeps reshape genetic diversity in freshwater bivalve Megalonaias nervosa
Rebekah L. Rogers, Stephanie L. Grizzard, Jeffrey T. Garner
Freshwater Unionid bivalves have recently faced ecological upheaval through pollution, barriers to dispersal, human harvesting, and changes in fish-host prevalence. Currently, over…
Gene family amplification facilitates adaptation in freshwater Unionid bivalve Megalonaias nervosa
Rebekah L. Rogers, Stephanie L. Grizzard, James E. Titus-McQuillan +5
As organisms are faced with intense rapidly changing selective pressures, new genetic material is required to facilitate adaptation. Among sources of genetic novelty, gene duplicat…
Chromosomal rearrangements as a source of new gene formation in Drosophila yakuba
Nicholas B. Stewart, Rebekah L. Rogers
The origins of new genes are among the most fundamental questions in evolutionary biology. Our understanding of the ways that new genetic material appears and how that genetic mate…
Excess of genomic defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel island
Rebekah L. Rogers, Montgomery Slatkin
Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) populated Siberia, Beringia, and North America during the Pleistocene and early Holocene. Recent breakthroughs in ancient DNA sequencing hav…
Chromosomal rearrangements as barriers to genetic homogenization between archaic and modern humans
Rebekah L. Rogers
Chromosomal rearrangements, which shuffle DNA throughout the genome, are an important source of divergence across taxa. Using a paired-end read approach with Illumina sequence data…
Revised Annotations, Sex-Biased Expression, and Lineage-Specific Genes in the Drosophila melanogaster group
Rebekah L. Rogers, Ling Shao, Jaleal S. Sanjak +2
Here, we provide revised gene models for D. ananassae, D. yakuba, and D. simulans, which include UTRs and empirically verified intron-exon boundaries, as well as ortholog groups id…
Tandem duplications and the limits of natural selection in Drosophila yakuba and Drosophila simulans
Rebekah L Rogers, Julie M Cridland, Ling Shao +3
Tandem duplications are an essential source of genetic novelty, and their variation in natural populations is expected to influence adaptive walks. Here, we describe evolutionary i…
Landscape of standing variation for tandem duplications in Drosophila yakuba and Drosophila simulans
Rebekah L. Rogers, Julie M. Cridland, Ling Shao +3
We have used whole genome paired-end Illumina sequence data to identify tandem duplications in 20 isofemale lines of D. yakuba, and 20 isofemale lines of D. simulans and performed…