R. Durbin

Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes

The paper investigates the dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes, revealing expanded piwil1 genes and divergent piRNA-producing loci.

A pangenomic perspective of the Lake Malawi cichlid radiation reveals extensive structural variation driven by transposable elements

The paper uses a pangenomic approach to analyze Lake Malawi cichlid genomes, revealing extensive structural variation driven by transposable elements.

Genetic and developmental divergence in the neural crest programme between cichlid fish species

The paper investigates genetic and developmental divergence in the neural crest programme between cichlid fish species, identifying sox10 paralogs as key drivers of morphological differences.

Genomic evidence reveals three sequential W-autosome fusions in Heliconius butterflies

The paper identifies three sequential W-autosome fusions in Heliconius butterflies, revealing their role in adaptive radiation and sex chromosome evolution.

Ecological speciation promoted by divergent regulation of functional genes within African cichlid fishes

The paper investigates transcriptome divergence in African cichlid fishes, identifying regulatory variants contributing to ecological speciation through differential gene expression and splicing.

The Selection Landscape and Genetic Legacy of Ancient Eurasians

This study models ancient Eurasian selection landscapes and shows ancestry-specific genetic risk associations with modern phenotypes.

High resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances on targeted sequences

This paper introduces NNoVAE, a method for high-resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances, achieving 98% accuracy for the An. gambiae complex and 89% for other species.

Caecilian genomes reveal molecular basis of adaptation and convergent evolution of limblessness in snakes and caecilians.

The paper analyzes caecilian genomes to identify molecular mechanisms underlying limblessness and convergent evolution with snakes, finding shared genetic targets involved in limb development.

Differential use of multiple genetic sex determination systems in divergent ecomorphs of an African crater lake cichlid

The paper identifies three coexisting sex-determining alleles in two ecomorphs of Astatotilapia calliptera, showing genetic interactions affecting fitness and speciation.

Genomic consequences of domestication of the Siamese fighting fish

The paper uses genomic data to show betta fish were domesticated over 1,000 years ago and identifies genes involved in their phenotypic diversity.

Ancestral hybridisation facilitated species diversification in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish adaptive radiation

This study shows ancestral hybridisation contributed to diversification in Lake Malawi cichlids by introducing genetic variation that was differentially selected during speciation.

Whole genome sequences of Malawi cichlids reveal multiple radiations interconnected by gene flow

The study sequenced 73 Lake Malawi cichlid species to reveal evolutionary processes driving adaptive radiation and gene flow between lineages.

Efficiently inferring the demographic history of many populations with allele count data

The paper introduces a method to efficiently compute the expected sample frequency spectrum for complex demographic histories described by general directed acyclic graphs, and applies it to estimate a basal Eurasian admixture event in humans.