Duplication and concerted evolution in a master sex determiner under balancing selection

Tracing back the nascence of a new sex-determination pathway to the ancestor of bees and ants

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The genome of the leaf-cutting antAcromyrmex echinatiorsuggests key adaptations to advanced social life and fungus farming

(2011) Sanne Nygaard et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Recombination Detection Under Evolutionary Scenarios Relevant to Functional Divergence

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Improving the Performance of Positive Selection Inference by Filtering Unreliable Alignment Regions

(2011) Eyal Privman et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Gene conversion rapidly generates major histocompatibility complex diversity in recently founded bird populations

(2011) LEWIS G. SPURGIN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The genome of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta

(2011) Y. Wurm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

(2010) Tanja Gempe et al.   BIOESSAYS

RDP3: a flexible and fast computer program for analyzing recombination

(2010) D. P. Martin et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An Effective Method for Detecting Gene Conversion Events in Whole Genomes

(2010) Chih-Hao Hsu et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

An Alignment Confidence Score Capturing Robustness to Guide Tree Uncertainty

(2010) O. Penn et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Effect of Insertions, Deletions, and Alignment Errors on the Branch-Site Test of Positive Selection

(2010) W. Fletcher et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Origin of a function by tandem gene duplication limits the evolutionary capability of its sister copy

(2010) M. Hasselmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic Comparison of the Ants Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator

(2010) R. Bonasio 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

Accelerated Evolution of the Prdm9 Speciation Gene across Diverse Metazoan Taxa

(2009) Peter L. Oliver et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evidence for the evolutionary nascence of a novel sex determination pathway in honeybees

(2008) Martin Hasselmann et al.   NATURE

Diversifying Selection and Concerted Evolution of a Type IV Secretion System in Bartonella

(2007) B. Nystedt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION