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Doris Bachtrog

Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, University of California Berkeley
Verified email at berkeley.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Sex determination: why so many ways of doing it?

D Bachtrog, JE Mank, CL Peichel, M Kirkpatrick… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… Many biologists are habituated to thinking about sex determination through the familiar
examples of mammals and D. melanogaster, and assume that sex determination by sex …

Y-chromosome evolution: emerging insights into processes of Y-chromosome degeneration

D Bachtrog - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
… Comparative analysis of primate Y chromosomes and D. melanogaster Y chromosomes
has revealed common features that are shared between their Y chromosomes and that have …

Are all sex chromosomes created equal?

D Bachtrog, M Kirkpatrick, JE Mank, SF McDaniel… - TRENDS in …, 2011 - cell.com
Three principal types of chromosomal sex determination are found in nature: male heterogamety
(XY systems, as in mammals), female heterogamety (ZW systems, as in birds), and …

[HTML][HTML] Horizontal gene transfer from diverse bacteria to an insect genome enables a tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis

…, RP Duncan, M Fujie, M Tanaka, N Satoh, D Bachtrog… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The smallest reported bacterial genome belongs to Tremblaya princeps, a symbiont of
Planococcus citri mealybugs (PCIT). Tremblaya PCIT not only has a 139 kb genome, but …

Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa

Q Zhou, J Zhang, D Bachtrog, N An, Q Huang… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Introduction Sex chromosomes originate from ordinary autosomes. Ancient sex-specific W
or Y chromosomes, like that of female chicken or those of male mammals, usually have lost …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative sex chromosome genomics in snakes: differentiation, evolutionary strata, and lack of global dosage compensation

…, JJ Emerson, Y Zektser, S Mahajan, D Bachtrog - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Snakes exhibit genetic sex determination, with female heterogametic sex chromosomes (ZZ
males, ZW females). Extensive cytogenetic work has suggested that the level of sex …

A dynamic view of sex chromosome evolution

D Bachtrog - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2006 - Elsevier
… Empirical evidence for the functional specialization hypothesis comes from D. miranda [10,
14]. Two genes in D. miranda that show an extremely high rate of protein evolution on the neo…

[HTML][HTML] Numerous transitions of sex chromosomes in Diptera

B Vicoso, D Bachtrog - PLoS biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… In particular, elements C and D became part of the sex chromosome in D. albomicans [21],
element D became sex-linked in an ancestor of D. miranda and D. pseudoobscura, and …

EXTENSIVE INTROGRESSION OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA RELATIVE TO NUCLEAR GENES IN THE DROSOPHILA YAKUBA SPECIES GROUP

D Bachtrog, K Thornton, A Clark, P Andolfatto - Evolution, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… santomea and D. yakuba diverged about one-half million years ago and split from D. … We
show that the mtDNA must have recently introgressed across species boundaries in the D. …

Reversal of an ancient sex chromosome to an autosome in Drosophila

B Vicoso, D Bachtrog - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
… The D. busckii libraries were prepared in the Bachtrog laboratory following the standard
Illumina protocol, and sequenced at the Berkeley sequencing facility. For each species, libraries …