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HYBRID RESCUE GENES. "The discovery of hybrid rescue genes, with mutations that reverse hybrid sterility or inviability, has significantly advanced our understanding of the genetic mechanisms that underlie the evolution of reproductive isolation during or following speciation." https://lnkd.in/eFexwJZ View in LinkedIn

THIRD SET OF SPECIATION GENES. “An essential cell cycle regulation gene causes hybrid inviability in Drosophila. Despite decades of investigation, the genetic basis of this hybrid F1 male inviability remains incompletely resolved. Consistent with our predictions, gfzfsim resides on the D. simulans third chromosome and is essential for viability." https://lnkd.in/eFexwJZ View in LinkedIn

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