Jacob L. Mueller

The paper tracks genome-wide evolutionary dynamics in hybrid Drosophila populations, showing rapid purging of minority ancestry and repeated retention of selected regions through adaptive introgression.

The paper identifies ampliconic sequences in mouse t-haplotypes as drivers of selfish transmission, showing their evolutionary relationship to sex chromosome dynamics.

The paper demonstrates dose-dependent competition between X- and Y-linked proteins for binding to Spindlins in yeast, revealing mechanisms of evolutionary arms race in mice.

The paper shows that deletion of X-linked palindromic gene families 4930567H17Rik and Mageb5 does not affect male fertility, spermatogenesis, or gene regulation, but may influence sperm head morphology.

The paper identifies a large amplified intronless gene, Laidx, on the X chromosome in mice, shows its evolutionary origin from a horizontal gene transfer, and finds no reproductive defects in its absence.

The paper compares X-palindromic regions across Mus species and finds evidence of arm-to-arm gene conversion at rates similar to autosomal gene conversion, suggesting it drives both sequence homogenization and diversification.

The paper investigates whether palindromic structures on the X chromosome are necessary for post-meiotic gene expression and fertility in male mice, finding that gene expression and fertility are unaffected by deletions of these regions.