Joost van den Heuvel

The paper assesses genetic structure and inbreeding in Andrena flavipes bees using SNPs, finding isolation-by-distance and high inbreeding despite high genetic variation.

The paper identifies the CSD locus in Bombus terrestris, showing its conservation across hymenopteran species and implications for population management.

This study identifies genetic changes in Noccaea caerulescens that correlate with nickel hyperaccumulation, showing that NcIRT1 mutations can cause loss of the trait.

This study tests a homing gene drive in Drosophila melanogaster and finds that while simple resistance alleles can emerge, complex resistance is unlikely due to no heritable genetic effects on drive efficiency.

This paper introduces a two-target gene drive design that improves suppression efficiency by combining homing and fitness cost elements, showing success in Drosophila but highlighting remaining challenges.

This study identifies six loci with significant lifespan effects and eight pairwise interactions in Drosophila melanogaster, showing that lifespan-related alleles are not necessarily selected for increased lifespan.

The paper examines clonal diversity and genetic structure of Myzus persicae in organic and conventional greenhouses, finding higher diversity in organic systems and shifts in dominant clones in conventional systems.

This study shows that microbial interactions influence the rate and trajectory of antibiotic resistance evolution in uropathogens.

This study examines how genomic selection affects allele frequencies and new mutations over fifty generations, finding that genomic selection leads to faster and larger changes in allele frequencies compared to pedigree selection.

This study simulates the long-term effects of genomic selection on genetic architecture, showing that non-additive effects significantly impact genetic variance and allele frequency changes over generations.

The paper shows that meiosis in Aspergillus fumigatus has the highest known crossover rate, producing ~29 crossovers per chromosome, and can generate azole-resistant haplotypes.

The paper presents the linked-read genome of Bracon brevicornis and investigates the complementary sex determiner gene using comparative analysis.