Callie M. Swanepoel

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 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.