The X chromosome of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, is homologous to a fly X chromosome despite 400 million years divergence

Maleness-on-the-Y (MoY) orchestrates male sex determination in major agricultural fruit fly pests

(2019) Angela Meccariello et al.   SCIENCE

Hemimetabolous insects elucidate the origin of sexual development via alternative splicing

(2019) Judith Wexler et al.   eLife

no blokes Is Essential for Male Viability and X Chromosome Gene Expression in the Australian Sheep Blowfly

(2018) Rebecca J. Davis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Enormous expansion of the chemosensory gene repertoire in the omnivorous German cockroach Blattella germanica

(2018) Hugh M. Robertson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality

(2018) Mark C. Harrison et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Drosophila Dot Chromosome: Where Genes Flourish Amidst Repeats

(2018) Nicole C. Riddle et al.   GENETICS

Evolution of Sex Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Animals: A Beautiful Theory, Undermined by Facts and Bedeviled by Details

(2017) Luiqi Gu et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The house fly Y Chromosome is young and minimally differentiated from its ancient X Chromosome partner

(2017) Richard P. Meisel et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Male sex in houseflies is determined byMdmd, a paralog of the generic splice factor geneCWC22

(2017) Akash Sharma et al.   SCIENCE

Dosage Compensation in Drosophila--a Model for the Coordinate Regulation of Transcription

(2016) M. I. Kuroda et al.   GENETICS

Sex Determination, Sex Chromosomes, and Karyotype Evolution in Insects

(2016) Heath Blackmon et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Inferring regulatory change from gene expression: the confounding effects of tissue scaling

(2016) Stephen H. Montgomery et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Near-optimal probabilistic RNA-seq quantification

(2016) Nicolas L Bray et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

FlyBase at 25: looking to the future

(2016) L. Sian Gramates et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

CDD/SPARCLE: functional classification of proteins via subfamily domain architectures

(2016) Aron Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase

(2016)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A maleness gene in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae

(2016) E. Krzywinska et al.   SCIENCE

How to make a sex chromosome

(2016) Alison E. Wright et al.   Nature Communications

GUY1 confers complete female lethality and is a strong candidate for a male-determining factor in Anopheles stephensi

(2016) Frank Criscione et al.   eLife

Dosage Compensation of X-Linked Muller Element F Genes but Not X-Linked Transgenes in the Australian Sheep Blowfly

(2015) Rebecca J. Linger et al.   PLoS One

A male-determining factor in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2015) A. B. Hall et al.   SCIENCE

Numerous Transitions of Sex Chromosomes in Diptera

(2015) Beatriz Vicoso et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Phylogeny and Evolutionary Timescale of Muscoidea (Diptera: Brachycera: Calyptratae) Inferred from Mitochondrial Genomes

(2015) Shuangmei Ding et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

Sex Determination in Insects: Variations on a Common Theme

(2014) D. Bopp et al.   Sexual Development

Patterns and Mechanisms of Evolutionary Transitions between Genetic Sex-Determining Systems

(2014) G. Sander van Doorn   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

(2014) Doris Bachtrog et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Recurrent loss of CenH3 is associated with independent transitions to holocentricity in insects

(2014) Ines A Drinnenberg et al.   eLife

Chorion formation in panoistic ovaries requires windei and trimethylation of histone 3 lysine 9

(2013) Alba Herraiz et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Reversal of an ancient sex chromosome to an autosome in Drosophila

(2013) Beatriz Vicoso et al.   NATURE

HP1a, Su(var)3-9, SETDB1 and POF stimulate or repress gene expression depending on genomic position, gene length and expression pattern in Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) Lina E. Lundberg et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Sex Determination Mechanisms in the Calliphoridae (Blow Flies)

(2013) M.J. Scott et al.   Sexual Development

Sex chromosome dosage compensation: definitely not for everyone

(2013) Judith E. Mank   TRENDS IN GENETICS

POF Regulates the Expression of Genes on the Fourth Chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster by Binding to Nascent RNA

(2012) A.-M. Johansson et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

HP1a Recruitment to Promoters Is Independent of H3K9 Methylation in Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) Margarida L. A. Figueiredo et al.   PLoS Genetics

A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data

(2011) Mark A DePristo et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life

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Evolution of Sex Chromosomes in Insects

(2010) Vera B. Kaiser et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Function and evolution of sex determination mechanisms, genes and pathways in insects

(2010) Tanja Gempe et al.   BIOESSAYS

The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

(2010) A. McKenna et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

About females and males: continuity and discontinuity in flies

(2010) Daniel Bopp   JOURNAL OF GENETICS

Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) Reveals a Neo-X Chromosome and Biased Gene Movement in Stalk-Eyed Flies (Genus Teleopsis)

(2010) Richard H. Baker et al.   PLoS Genetics

Single-copy nuclear genes resolve the phylogeny of the holometabolous insects

(2009) Brian M Wiegmann et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Multiple SET Methyltransferases Are Required to Maintain Normal Heterochromatin Domains in the Genome of Drosophila melanogaster

(2009) B. Brower-Toland et al.   GENETICS

A Complex Suite of Forces Drives Gene Traffic from Drosophila X Chromosomes

(2009) Richard P. Meisel et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Windei, the Drosophila Homolog of mAM/MCAF1, Is an Essential Cofactor of the H3K9 Methyl Transferase dSETDB1/Eggless in Germ Line Development

(2009) Carmen M. Koch et al.   PLoS Genetics

Gene content evolution on the X chromosome

(2008) Tatiana A Gurbich et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Polytene Chromosomal Maps of 11 Drosophila Species: The Order of Genomic Scaffolds Inferred From Genetic and Physical Maps

(2008) S. W. Schaeffer et al.   GENETICS