Viola Nolte

Environmental temperature is a strong driver of subspecies competition in the Drosophila microbiome

The paper shows that environmental temperature drives competition among subspecies of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum in Drosophila microbiomes, revealing functional differentiation at the subspecies level.

Purifying Selection Shapes the Dynamics of P-element Invasion in Drosophila simulans Populations

The paper uses experimental evolution to study purifying selection on P-element invasion in Drosophila simulans, finding 73% of new insertions are under purifying selection with a mean selection coefficient of -0.056.

The adaptive architecture is shaped by population ancestry and not by selection regime

The study shows that adaptive architecture in Drosophila simulans is influenced by founder population ancestry rather than the specific selection regime.

Transcription-coupled repair in Drosophila melanogaster is independent of the mismatch repair pathway

The paper investigates TCR in Drosophila melanogaster and finds it remains active even without the MMR gene spel1, with TCR signatures detected in introns but not exons.

Secondary evolve and re-sequencing: an experimental confirmation of putative selection targets without phenotyping

The paper validates selection targets from experimental evolution without phenotyping by conducting secondary evolve and re-sequencing experiments.

DNA motifs are not general predictors of recombination in two Drosophila sister species.

The paper investigates whether DNA motifs predict recombination rates in Drosophila species and finds that motif density does not explain large-scale recombination patterns in D. melanogaster or its sister species D. simulans.

Massive bursts of transposable element activity in Drosophila

The paper analyzes transposable element activity in Drosophila species by comparing TE insertion frequencies across populations, finding recent bursts in both species with different TE family dominance.

The P-element strikes again: the recent invasion of natural Drosophila simulans populations

The paper shows that the P-element, previously thought absent from Drosophila simulans, has recently invaded its populations via horizontal transfer from D. melanogaster.