Mechanisms of Change: A Population-Based Perspective on the Roles of Modularity and Pleiotropy in Diversification

Trait differentiation and modular toxin expression in palm-pitvipers

(2020) Andrew J. Mason et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Genetic dissection of assortative mating behavior

(2019) Richard M. Merrill et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A Combinatorial View on Speciation and Adaptive Radiation

(2019) David A. Marques et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A homeotic shift late in development drives mimetic color variation in a bumble bee

(2019) Li Tian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contrasting Roles of Transcription Factors Spineless and EcR in the Highly Dynamic Chromatin Landscape of Butterfly Wing Metamorphosis

(2019) Karin R.L. van der Burg et al.   Cell Reports

Actors with Multiple Roles: Pleiotropic Enhancers and the Paradigm of Enhancer Modularity

(2019) Gonzalo Sabarís et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Transcriptional Silencers in Drosophila Serve a Dual Role as Transcriptional Enhancers in Alternate Cellular Contexts

(2019) Stephen S. Gisselbrecht et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Parallel evolution of ancient, pleiotropic enhancers underlies butterfly wing pattern mimicry

(2019) James J. Lewis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interplay between Developmental Flexibility and Determinism in the Evolution of Mimetic Heliconius Wing Patterns

(2019) Carolina Concha et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Comprehensive Analysis of a cis -Regulatory Region Reveals Pleiotropy in Enhancer Function

(2018) Ella Preger-Ben Noon et al.   Cell Reports

Ontogenetic and phylogenetic simplification during white stripe evolution in clownfishes

(2018) Pauline Salis et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Correlated Evolution of Two Copulatory Organs via a Single cis-Regulatory Nucleotide Change

(2018) Olga Nagy et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Aristaless Controls Butterfly Wing Color Variation Used in Mimicry and Mate Choice

(2018) Erica L. Westerman et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Agouti-related peptide 2 facilitates convergent evolution of stripe patterns across cichlid fish radiations

(2018) Claudius F. Kratochwil et al.   SCIENCE

Gene Regulatory Enhancers with Evolutionarily Conserved Activity Are More Pleiotropic than Those with Species-Specific Activity

(2017) Alexandra Fish et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Repeated divergent selection on pigmentation genes in a rapid finch radiation

(2017) Leonardo Campagna et al.   Science Advances

Complex modular architecture around a simple toolkit of wing pattern genes

(2017) Steven M. Van Belleghem et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Pleiotropy, constraint, and modularity in the evolution of life histories: insights from genomic analyses

(2016) Kimberly A. Hughes et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Modularity: Genes, Development, and Evolution

(2016) Diogo Melo et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Plumage Genes and Little Else Distinguish the Genomes of Hybridizing Warblers

(2016) David P.L. Toews et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The gene cortex controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and moths

(2016) Nicola J. Nadeau et al.   NATURE

Systematic mapping of functional enhancer–promoter connections with CRISPR interference

(2016) Charles P. Fulco et al.   SCIENCE

ChIP-Seq-Annotated Heliconius erato Genome Highlights Patterns of cis -Regulatory Evolution in Lepidoptera

(2016) James J. Lewis et al.   Cell Reports

Evolutionary Novelty in a Butterfly Wing Pattern through Enhancer Shuffling

(2016) Richard W. R. Wallbank et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Enhancer Evolution across 20 Mammalian Species

(2015) Diego Villar et al.   CELL

Enhancer modularity and the evolution of new traits

(2015) Shigeyuki Koshikawa   FLY

A cis-regulatory module activating transcription in the suspensor contains five cis-regulatory elements

(2015) Kelli F. Henry et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Hybridisation and diversification in the adaptive radiation of clownfishes

(2014) Glenn Litsios et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Pigment cell interactions and differential xanthophore recruitment underlying zebrafish stripe reiteration and Danio pattern evolution

(2014) Larissa B. Patterson et al.   Nature Communications

Developmental Fate and Cellular Maturity Encoded in Human Regulatory DNA Landscapes

(2013) Andrew B. Stergachis et al.   CELL

Emergence and Diversification of Fly Pigmentation Through Evolution of a Gene Regulatory Module

(2013) L. Arnoult et al.   SCIENCE

Colour variation in cichlid fish: Developmental mechanisms, selective pressures and evolutionary consequences

(2013) Martine E. Maan et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evolutionary and Developmental Modules

(2013) Francesco Lacquaniti et al.   Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Diversification of complex butterfly wing patterns by repeated regulatory evolution of a Wnt ligand

(2012) A. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The many faces of pleiotropy

(2012) Annalise B. Paaby et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

optix Drives the Repeated Convergent Evolution of Butterfly Wing Pattern Mimicry

(2011) R. D. Reed et al.   SCIENCE

The Developmental Role of Agouti in Color Pattern Evolution

(2011) M. Manceau et al.   SCIENCE

Specialization Can Drive the Evolution of Modularity

(2010) Carlos Espinosa-Soto et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Transcriptional activities of the Pax6 gene eyeless regulate tissue specificity of ectopic eye formation in Drosophila

(2009) Bonnie M. Weasner et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Modularity, comparative embryology and evo-devo: Developmental dissection of evolving body plans

(2009) Shigeru Kuratani   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Stepwise Modification of a Modular Enhancer Underlies Adaptation in a Drosophila Population

(2009) M. Rebeiz et al.   SCIENCE

Adaptive Evolution of Pelvic Reduction in Sticklebacks by Recurrent Deletion of a Pitx1 Enhancer

(2009) Y. F. Chan et al.   SCIENCE

Wings, Horns, and Butterfly Eyespots: How Do Complex Traits Evolve?

(2009) Antónia Monteiro et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis: A Genetic Theory of Morphological Evolution

(2008) Sean B. Carroll   CELL

Many sequence variants affecting diversity of adult human height

(2008) Daniel F Gudbjartsson et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Epistasis — the essential role of gene interactions in the structure and evolution of genetic systems

(2008) Patrick C. Phillips   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS