ArticleCommunicative & integrative biology2013
Evolution of recombination and genome structure in eusocial insects.
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- Haploid and Sexual Selection Shape the Rate of Evolution of Genes across the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.) Genome.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Recombination mapping of the Brazilian stingless bee Frieseomelitta varia confirms high recombination rates in social hymenoptera.BMC genomics · 2021Article
- Eusociality in snapping shrimps is associated with larger genomes and an accumulation of transposable elements.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Eusociality influences the strength of negative selection on insect genomes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Local Variation in Recombination Rates of the Honey Bee (Insectes sociaux · 2020Article
- Substantial Heritable Variation in Recombination Rate on Multiple Scales in Honeybees and Bumblebees.Genetics · 2019Article
- A New Metazoan Recombination Rate Record and Consistently High Recombination Rates in the Honey Bee Genus Apis Accompanied by Frequent Inversions but Not Translocations.Genome biology and evolution · 2016Article
- Genomic correlates of recombination rate and its variability across eight recombination maps in the western honey bee (Apis mellifera L.).BMC genomics · 2015Article
- Causes and consequences of crossing-over evidenced via a high-resolution recombinational landscape of the honey bee.Genome biology · 2015Article
- Recombination, chromosome number and eusociality in the Hymenoptera.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2015Article
- De novo transcriptome assembly of the lobster cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea (Blaberidae).Genetics and molecular biologyArticle
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Abstract
Eusocial Hymenoptera, such as the European honey bee, Apis mellifera, have the highest recombination rates of multicellular animals.(1) Recently, we showed(2) that a side-effect of recombination in the honey bee, GC biased gene conversion (bGC), helps maintain the unusual bimodal GC-content distribution of the bee genome by increasing GC-content in high recombination areas while low recombination areas are losing GC-content because of biased AT mutations and low rates of bGC. Although the very high recombination rate of A. mellifera makes GC-content evolution easier to study, the pattern is consistent with results found in many other species including mammals and yeast.(3) Also consistent across phyla is the association of higher genetic diversity and divergence with high GC and high recombination areas.(4) (,) (5) Finally, we showed that genes overexpressed in the brains of workers cluster in GC-rich genomic areas with the highest rates of recombination and molecular evolution.(2) In this Addendum we present a conceptual model of how eusociality and high recombination rates may co-evolve.
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