Every week, members of the Wilson Sayres’ lab scour journals for interesting and relevant (to lab research) articles. Here’s what we found the week of November 27, 2015:
Sex Chromosomes
Chromosomal rearrangements as barriers to genetic homogenization between archaic and modern humans Rogers (2015) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Differentiation of sex chromosomes and karyotype characterisation in the dragonsnake Xenodermus javanicus (Squamata: Xenodermatidae) Rovatsos et al. (2015) in Cytogenic and Genome Research
Genomics/Genetics
Allelic mutations of KITLG, encoding KIT ligand, cause asymmetric and unilateral hearing loss and Waardenburg Syndrome Type 2. Zazo Seco et al. (2015) in American Journal of Human Genetics
Family wide molecular adaptations to underground life in African mole-rats revealed by phylogenomic analysis Davies et al. (2015) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Reintroduction of a homocysteine level-associated allele into East Asians by Neanderthal introgression Hu et al. (2015) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
A common genetic origin for early farmers from Mediterranean Cardial and Central European LBK cultures Olalde et al. (2015) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Polymerase zeta activity is linked to replication timing in humans: evidence from mutational signatures Seplyarskiy et al. (2015) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Exploring massive incomplete lineage sorting in Arctoids (Laurasiatheria, Carnivora) Doronina et al. (2015) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Population level purifying selection and gene expression shape subgenome evolution in maize Pophaly and Tellier (2015) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
The mosaic ancestry of the Drosophila genetic reference panel and the D. melanogaster reference genome reveals a network of epistatic fitness interactions Pool (2015) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Inferring selective constraint from population genomic data suggest recent regulatory turnover in the human brain Schrider and Kern (2015) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Evolutionary genomics of Culex pipiens: global and local adaptations associated with climate, life-history traits and anthropogenic factors Asgharian et al. (2015) in Proceedings of the Royal Society: B
Identification and characterization of essential genes in the human genome Wang et al. (2015) in Science
Hemichordate genomes and deuterostome origins Simakov et al. (2015) in Nature
Stable recombination hotspots in birds Singhal et al. (2015) in Science
Gekko japonicus genome reveals evolution of adhesive toe pads and tail regeneration Liu et al. (2015) in Nature Communications
Methods/Data
A comparative study of RNA-seq analysis strategies Jänes et al. (2015) in Briefings in Bioinformatics
Assessing the consistency of public human tissue RNA-seq data sets Danielsson et al. (2015) in Briefings in Bioinformatics
Beyond fruit-flies: population genomic advances in non-Drosohpila arthropods Hasselmann et al. (2015) in Briefings in Functional Genomics
Miscellaneous
Hybridization and the origin of contagious asexuality in Daphnia pulex Xu et al. (2015) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Genes, circuits, and precision therapies for autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders Sahin and Sur (2015) in Science
The effects of life history and sexual selection on male and female plumage colouration Dale et al. (2015) in Nature