How to break Mendel’s laws? The role of sexual conflict in the evolution of unusual transmission genetics

Project Information

PGErepro

Grant agreement ID: 803932

DOI 10.3030/803932

EC signature date 25 October 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 30 June 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 494 055,00

EU contribution € 1 494 055,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Males That Silence Their Father’s Genes: Genomic Imprinting of a Complete Haploid Genome

Author(s): Andrés G de la Filia, Andrew J Mongue, Jennifer Dorrens, Hannah Lemon, Dominik R Laetsch, Laura Ross
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 38/6, 2021, Page(s) 2566-2581, ISSN 1537-1719
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab052

Sexual antagonism in haplodiploids

Author(s): Hitchcock, T.J., Gardner, A. & Ross, L.
Published in: Evolution, 2021, ISSN 0014-3820
Publisher: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14398

Sex, males, and hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi

Author(s): Andrew J. Mongue, Sozos Michaelides, Oliver Coombe, Alejandro Tena, Dong‐Soon Kim, Benjamin B. Normark, Andy Gardner, Mark S. Hoddle, Laura Ross
Published in: Evolution, 2021, ISSN 0014-3820
Publisher: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14233

Evolutionary Perspectives on Germline-Restricted Chromosomes in Flies (Diptera)

Author(s): Christina N Hodson, Laura Ross
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press

­­­­­­Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods

Author(s): Samuel H. Lewis, Laura Ross, Stevie A. Bain, Eleni Pahita, Stephen A. Smith, Richard Cordaux, Eric A. Miska, Boris Lenhard, Francis M. Jiggins, Peter Sarkies
Published in: PLOS Genetics, Issue 16/6, 2020, Page(s) e1008864, ISSN 1553-7404
Publisher: PLOS Genetics
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008864

Paternal genome elimination: patterns and mechanisms of drive and silencing

Author(s): Marion Herbette; Laura Ross
Published in: Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 0959-437X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2023.102065

Evolution of gene-rich germline restricted chromosomes in black-winged fungus gnats through introgression (Diptera: Sciaridae).

Author(s): Hodson, C.N., Jaron, K.S., Gerbi, S.A. and Ross, L.
Published in: Plos biology, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1544-9173
Publisher: Public Library of Science

Sex, males, and hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi

Author(s): Andrew J. Mongue, Sozos Michaelides, Oliver Coombe, Alejandro Tena, Dong‐Soon Kim, Benjamin B. Normark, Andy Gardner, Mark S. Hoddle, Laura Ross
Published in: Evolution, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0014-3820
Publisher: Society for the Study of Evolution

Sex‐specific expression and DNA methylation in a species with extreme sexual dimorphism and paternal genome elimination

Author(s): Stevie A. Bain, Hollie Marshall, Andrés G. Filia, Dominik R. Laetsch, Filip Husnik, Laura Ross
Published in: Molecular Ecology, 2021, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15842

Evolutionary Perspectives on Germline-Restricted Chromosomes in Flies (Diptera)

Author(s): Christina N Hodson, Laura Ross
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 13/6, 2021, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab072