Untangling the Evolution of a Balanced Lethal System

Project Information

BALANCED LETHALS

Grant agreement ID: 802759

DOI

10.3030/802759

Project closed

EC signature date 13 November 2018

Start date 1 February 2019

End date 31 January 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 869,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 869,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Genomic architecture of supergenes: connecting form and function

Author(s): Emma L. Berdan, Thomas Flatt, Genevieve M. Kozak, Katie E. Lotterhos, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 377, 2022, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0192

Dynamics of Size and Shape Variation During Embryonic Development in the Balkan Crested Newt

Author(s): Marko Bugarčić, Ana Ivanović, Milena Cvijanović, Maja Ajduković, Marija Drobnjaković, Ben Wielstra, Tijana Vučić
Published in: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 2026, ISSN 1552-5007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.70041

Identification of Y-chromosome turnover in newts fails to support a sex chromosome origin for the <i>Triturus</i> balanced lethal system

Author(s): James France, Wiesław Babik, Milena Cvijanović, Katarzyna Dudek, Ana Ivanović, Tijana Vučić, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, 2026, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.04.621952

A staging table of Balkan crested newt embryonic development to serve as a baseline in evolutionary developmental studies

Author(s): Tijana Vučić, Marija Drobnjaković, Maja Ajduković, Marko Bugarčić, Ben Wielstra, Ana Ivanović, Milena Cvijanović
Published in: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, Issue 342, 2024, Page(s) 465-482, ISSN 1552-5007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.23269

Linkage mapping vs Association: A comparison of two RADseq-based approaches to identify markers for homomorphic sex chromosomes in large genomes.

Author(s): James France, Wieslaw Babik, Katarzyna Dudek, Marzena Marszałek, Ben Wielstra
Published in: molecular ecology resources, 2026, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.22541/au.172137196.69932431/v1

<scp>NewtCap</scp> : An Efficient Target Capture Approach to Boost Genomic Studies in Salamandridae (True Salamanders and Newts)

Author(s): Manon Chantal de Visser, James France, Evan McCartney‐Melstad, Gary M. Bucciarelli, Anagnostis Theodoropoulos, Howard Bradley Shaffer, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 15, 2026, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71835

Genetic pollution risk in newts at the far end of the speciation continuum

Author(s): Anagnostis Theodoropoulos, Aziz Avcı, Daniel Fernández-Guiberteau, Albert Ferran, Kurtuluş Olgun, Nazan Üzüm, Salvador Carranza, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Global Ecology and Conservation, Issue 69, 2026, Page(s) e04308, ISSN 2351-9894
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2026.e04308

Determining Zygosity With Multiplex Kompetitive Allele‐Specific <scp>PCR</scp> (<scp>mxKASP</scp>) Genotyping

Author(s): Willem R. M. Meilink, Manon C. de Visser, Anagnostis Theodoropoulos, Michael Fahrbach, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71642

Balanced Lethal Systems: An Evolutionary Mystery

Author(s): Willem R. M. Meilink, James France, Manon C. de Visser, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Frontiers for Young Minds, Issue 9, 2021, ISSN 2296-6846
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/frym.2021.632945

Exposing Selection and Genetic Linkage in the Evolutionary Enigmatic Balanced Lethal System in <i>Triturus</i> Newts

Author(s): Willem R. M. Meilink, Milena Cvijanović, Manon C. de Visser, James France, Ana Ivanović, Anagnostis Theodoropoulos, Tijana Vučić, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71591

Triploidy in a pair of hybridizing salamanders at the far end of the speciation continuum

Author(s): Jan W Arntzen, Evan McCartney-Melstad, Spartak N Litvinchuk, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Journal of Heredity, Issue 117, 2026, Page(s) 730-739, ISSN 0022-1503
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esag006

Mutation accumulation opposes polymorphism: supergenes and the curious case of balanced lethals

Author(s): Emma L. Berdan, Alexandre Blanckaert, Roger K. Butlin, Thomas Flatt, Tanja Slotte, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 377, 2022, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0199

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Balanced lethal systems

Author(s): Ben Wielstra
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 30/13, 2020, Page(s) R742-R743, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.011