Retention of Core Meiotic Genes Across Diverse Hymenoptera

Whole Genome Sequencing of the Braconid Parasitoid Wasp Fopius arisanus , an Important Biocontrol Agent of Pest Tepritid Fruit Flies

(2017) Scott M. Geib et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Conservation and Variability of Meiosis Across the Eukaryotes

(2016) Josef Loidl   Annual Review of Genetics

Roles for mismatch repair family proteins in promoting meiotic crossing over

(2016) Carol M. Manhart et al.   DNA REPAIR

Genome, transcriptome and methylome sequencing of a primitively eusocial wasp reveal a greatly reduced DNA methylation system in a social insect

(2016) Daniel S. Standage et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Comparative and phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial genomes in basal hymenopterans

(2016) Sheng-Nan Song et al.   Scientific Reports

Disrupting Cyclin Dependent Kinase 1 in Spermatocytes Causes Late Meiotic Arrest and Infertility in Mice1

(2015) Tracy M. Clement et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Identification of the meiotic toolkit in diatoms and exploration of meiosis-specific SPO11 and RAD51 homologs in the sexual species Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata and Seminavis robusta

(2015) Shrikant Patil et al.   BMC GENOMICS

RECQ4 selectively recognizes Holliday junctions

(2015) Hana Sedlackova et al.   DNA REPAIR

Higher-level phylogeny of the Hymenoptera inferred from mitochondrial genomes

(2015) Meng Mao et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Small Rad51 and Dmc1 Complexes Often Co-occupy Both Ends of a Meiotic DNA Double Strand Break

(2015) M. Scott Brown et al.   PLoS Genetics

The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization

(2015) Ben M Sadd et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic analysis of CDK and cyclin proteins in premetazoan lineages

(2014) Lihuan Cao et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogeny of the symphytan grade of Hymenoptera: new pieces into the old jigsaw(fly) puzzle

(2014) Tobias Malm et al.   CLADISTICS

The Drosophila Werner Exonuclease Participates in an Exonuclease-Independent Response to Replication Stress

(2014) Elyse Bolterstein et al.   GENETICS

TheSaccharomyces cerevisiaeMlh1-Mlh3 Heterodimer Is an Endonuclease That Preferentially Binds to Holliday Junctions

(2014) Lepakshi Ranjha et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Polo-like kinases: structural variations lead to multiple functions

(2014) Sihem Zitouni et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Adaptive evolution of the circadian gene timeout in insects

(2014) Hai-Feng Gu et al.   Scientific Reports

Widespread Genome Reorganization of an Obligate Virus Mutualist

(2014) Gaelen R. Burke et al.   PLoS Genetics

Cyclin-dependent kinases

(2014) Marcos Malumbres   GENOME BIOLOGY

Informed and automated k-mer size selection for genome assembly

(2013) R. Chikhi et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Niche differentiation and colonization of a novel environment by an asexual parasitic wasp

(2013) A. A. Forbes et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Inventory and Phylogenetic Analysis of Meiotic Genes in Monogonont Rotifers

(2013) Sara J. Hanson et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Meiosis Gene Inventory of Four Ciliates Reveals the Prevalence of a Synaptonemal Complex-Independent Crossover Pathway

(2013) Jingyun Chi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Human RECQ5 helicase promotes repair of DNA double-strand breaks by synthesis-dependent strand annealing

(2013) Shreya Paliwal et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Hymenopteran Tree of Life: Evidence from Protein-Coding Genes and Objectively Aligned Ribosomal Data

(2013) Seraina Klopfstein et al.   PLoS One

Cell cycle control across the eukaryotic kingdom

(2013) Hirofumi Harashima et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Obligate mutualism within a host drives the extreme specialization of a fig wasp genome

(2013) Jin-Hua Xiao et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Cdk1, but not Cdk2, is the sole Cdk that is essential and sufficient to drive resumption of meiosis in mouse oocytes

(2012) D. Adhikari et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Saccharomyces cerevisiaeDmc1 and Rad51 Proteins Preferentially Function with Tid1 and Rad54 Proteins, Respectively, to Promote DNA Strand Invasion during Genetic Recombination

(2012) Amitabh V. Nimonkar et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

BLM Helicase Ortholog Sgs1 Is a Central Regulator of Meiotic Recombination Intermediate Metabolism

(2012) Arnaud De Muyt et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Homologous recombination and its regulation

(2012) L. Krejci et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The spread of a transposon insertion in Rec8 is associated with obligate asexuality in Daphnia

(2012) B. D. Eads et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rad51 Is an Accessory Factor for Dmc1-Mediated Joint Molecule Formation During Meiosis

(2012) V. Cloud et al.   SCIENCE

SOAPdenovo2: an empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler

(2012) Ruibang Luo et al.   GigaScience

The taming of an impossible child: a standardized all-in approach to the phylogeny of Hymenoptera using public database sequences

(2011) Ralph S Peters et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera

(2011) Michael J. Sharkey et al.   CLADISTICS

Deleterious Mutation Accumulation in Asexual Timema Stick Insects

(2011) Lee Henry et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

RecQ helicases; at the crossroad of genome replication, repair, and recombination

(2011) Sarallah Rezazadeh   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

The Genome Sequence of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into Its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle

(2011) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Early Evolution of Apocrita (Insecta, Hymenoptera) as Indicated by New Findings in the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Northeast China

(2010) Alexandr P. RASNTTSYN et al.   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

Geographic and Ecological Overlap of Parasitoid Wasps Associated With the Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) Species Complex

(2010) A. A. Forbes et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Drosophila timeless2 Is Required for Chromosome Stability and Circadian Photoreception

(2010) Clara Benna et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Inventory and phylogenomic distribution of meiotic genes inNasonia vitripennisand among diverse arthropods

(2010) A. M. Schurko et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Stepwise evolution of the centriole-assembly pathway

(2010) Z. Carvalho-Santos et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Functional and Evolutionary Insights from the Genomes of Three Parasitoid Nasonia Species

(2010) J. H. Werren et al.   SCIENCE

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Beyond the wasp-waist: structural diversity and phylogenetic significance of the mesosoma in apocritan wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera)

(2010) LARS VILHELMSEN et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Cohesin: Its Roles and Mechanisms

(2009) Kim Nasmyth et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Meiosis genes in Daphnia pulex and the role of parthenogenesis in genome evolution

(2009) Andrew M Schurko et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Polo-like kinases: conservation and divergence in their functions and regulation

(2009) Vincent Archambault et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Using a meiosis detection toolkit to investigate ancient asexual “scandals” and the evolution of sex

(2008) Andrew M. Schurko et al.   BIOESSAYS

The Werner Syndrome Protein Binds Replication Fork and Holliday Junction DNAs as an Oligomer

(2008) Sarah A. Compton et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

(2008) S. Q. Le et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum

(2008) Stephen Richards et al.   NATURE

Cyclin-dependent kinases and cell-cycle transitions: does one fit all?

(2008) Helfrid Hochegger et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

An Expanded Inventory of Conserved Meiotic Genes Provides Evidence for Sex in Trichomonas vaginalis

(2008) Shehre-Banoo Malik et al.   PLoS One