Reversal of an ancient sex chromosome to an autosome in Drosophila

Sex chromosomes and associated rDNA form a heterochromatic network in the polytene nuclei of Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae)

(2012) Elena Drosopoulou et al.   GENETICA

Sex-Biased Transcriptome Evolution in Drosophila

(2012) Raquel Assis et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Sex-Specific Adaptation Drives Early Sex Chromosome Evolution in Drosophila

(2012) Q. Zhou et al.   SCIENCE

Transitions Between Sex-Determining Systems in Reptiles and Amphibians

(2011) Stephen D. Sarre et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Lack of Global Dosage Compensation in Schistosoma mansoni, a Female-Heterogametic Parasite

(2011) Beatriz Vicoso et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Interchromosomal Duplications on the Bactrocera oleae Y Chromosome Imply a Distinct Evolutionary Origin of the Sex Chromosomes Compared to Drosophila

(2011) Paolo Gabrieli et al.   PLoS One

Noncanonical Compensation of Zygotic X Transcription in Early Drosophila melanogaster Development Revealed through Single-Embryo RNA-Seq

(2011) Susan E. Lott et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

(2010) Heng Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

New Y chromosomes and early stages of sex chromosome differentiation: sex determination in Megaselia

(2010) Walther Traut   JOURNAL OF GENETICS

Translocation of Y-Linked Genes to the Dot Chromosome in Drosophila pseudoobscura

(2010) Amanda M. Larracuente et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A lot about a little dot — lessons learned from Drosophila melanogaster chromosome 4This paper is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue, entitled 29th Annual International Asilomar Chromatin and Chromosomes Conference, and has undergone the Journal’s usual peer review process.

(2009) Nicole C. Riddle et al.   Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Drosophila dosage compensation: a complex voyage to the X chromosome

(2009) M. E. Gelbart et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Coordinated Regulation of Heterochromatic Genes in Drosophila melanogaster Males

(2009) X. Deng et al.   GENETICS

Phylogeny of sex-determining mechanisms in squamate reptiles: are sex chromosomes an evolutionary trap?

(2009) MARTINA POKORNÁ et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Stage-Specific Expression Profiling of Drosophila Spermatogenesis Suggests that Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation Drives Genomic Relocation of Testis-Expressed Genes

(2009) Maria D. Vibranovski et al.   PLoS Genetics

Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

(2009) Ben Langmead et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Sex-determining mechanisms in insects

(2008) Lucas Sanchez   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Low conservation of gene content in the Drosophila Y chromosome

(2008) Leonardo B. Koerich et al.   NATURE