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SECOND SET OF LETHALITY GENES. "Two Dobzhansky-Muller Genes Interact to Cause Hybrid Lethality in Drosophila. we show that Lethal hybrid rescue (Lhr) has functionally diverged in Drosophila simulans and interacts with Hybrid male rescue (Hmr), which has functionally diverged in D. melanogaster, to cause lethality in F1 hybrid males." https://lnkd.in/earHjdP View in LinkedIn

COUNTER-INTUITIVE. "The general properties of diatom mitochondrial genomes are indeed more similar to animal than to plant mitochondrial genomes." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/20/jxb.err441.full View in LinkedIn

FIRST SPECIATION GENES. "Pervasive adaptive evolution among interactors of the Drosophila hybrid inviability gene, Nup96." https://lnkd.in/eKz785T View in LinkedIn

DIATOMS VS PLANTS. "While there is evidence of significant gene transfer from the plastid and mitochondrial genomes to the nucleus in higher plants and dinoflagellates, in the diatoms no proof of such gene transfers from the mitochondria to the nucleus were found. The general properties of diatom mitochondrial genomes are indeed more similar to animal than to plant mitochondrial genomes." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/20/jxb.err441.full View in LinkedIn

BEYOND DARWIN. "These new findings, along with those from other hybrid incompatibility genes, suggest something that Darwin could never have imagined. In particular, genetic conflicts — involving selfish transposons, repetitive DNAs, drive elements and so forth— rather than good old-fashioned ecological adaptation could drive the divergence that in turn gives rise to hybrid incompatibilities and, consequently, to species differentiation." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982206026649 View in LinkedIn

DIATOM GENE SHUFFLING. "The collected data suggests multiple gene transfers from the endo- and exosymbiont, from one genome to another, such as genes transferred from the algal plastid to the algal nucleus, and then incorporated into the host, in this case diatom, nucleus." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/20/jxb.err441.full View in LinkedIn

HYBRID STERILITY. "Today we would say that hybrid sterility and inviability are caused by incompatible epistatic interactions between genes that have functionally diverged between species." https://lnkd.in/eV72BRp View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX DIATOM PICTURE. "Considering that such a fusion is thought to involve two nuclear genomes, two mitochondrial genomes, and one plastid genome, the process must have been highly complex and, because it happened so long ago, reconstructing its history has proven extremely difficult." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/20/jxb.err441.full View in LinkedIn

SPECIES BARRIER AND EPIGENETICS. "Evolutionary biologists have long recognized that the sterility and inviability of species hybrids must involve incompatible epistatic interactions between two (or more) genes. The first pair of such hybrid incompatibility genes has now been identified." https://lnkd.in/eV72BRp View in LinkedIn

SUPER-ORGANISM. "Mathematical models predict that viral quasispecies are not simply a collection of diverse mutants but a group of interactive variants, which together contribute to the characteristics of the population. According to this view, viral populations, rather than individual variants, are the target of evolutionary selection." https://lnkd.in/eb_myZ8 View in LinkedIn