Yevgeniy Raynes

The paper tests if mitochondrial backgrounds influence nuclear allele fate during hybridization, finding no evidence of such effects despite expected incompatibilities.

This study examines how mTOR-mediated transcriptional regulation diverges between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans across tissues and sexes, finding tissue- and sex-specific evolutionary divergence.

The paper tests the Mothers Curse hypothesis by comparing mtDNA effects on performance traits in Drosophila across different nuclear backgrounds, finding greater phenotypic variation in females than males, contrary to the hypothesis.

The paper quantifies the relative contributions of mitochondrial, nuclear, and environmental variation to complex traits in Drosophila, finding that genetic and environmental interactions outweigh mitonuclear coevolution.

This paper develops a theoretical framework to study the evolution of heritable biological noise, showing how natural selection shapes the amount of noise in organisms.