Mark Kirkpatrick

The paper identifies a recombination event within a non-recombining sex chromosome in blackspotted sticklebacks, challenging the notion that recombination suppression is irreversible.

The study predicts coral microbiome composition using host genetics, algal symbionts, and environmental factors in Acropora millepora during a bleaching event.

The paper challenges the hypothesis that sex-differential gene expression drives sex-differential selection by showing no genome-wide relationship between sex differences in expression and selection on eQTLs across 39 human tissues.

This study quantifies sex-differential selection (SDS) across the human genome using UK Biobank data, revealing polygenic signals and a tradeoff between viability and fecundity.

The paper identifies amplification as the main mechanism of gene-by-sex interactions in complex human traits, showing sex differences in genetic effect magnitudes rather than variant identity.

This paper reviews and reanalyzes data on the evolution of sex chromosomes in guppies and their relatives, finding no nonrecombining sex determining region or evolutionary strata in P. reticulata.