DrosEU publications

Berr Tristan, Peticca Aurelie, Haudry Annabelle ABSTRACT Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous sequences in genomes of virtually all species. While TEs have been investigated for several decades, only recently we have the opportunity to study their genome-wide population Identification of regulatory regions within genomes is a key challenge for understanding the influence of functional traitscontinue …

Emmanuelle Lerat, Clément Goubert, Sara Guirao-Rico, Miriam Merenciano, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, Cristina Vieira, Josefa González ABSTRACT Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous sequences in genomes of virtually all species. While TEs have been investigated for several decades, only recently we have the opportunity to study their genome-wide population dynamics. Most of the studies so far have beencontinue …

Ariane Ramaekers, Annelies Claeys, Martin Kapun, Emmanuèle Mouchel-Vielh, Delphine Potier, Simon Weinberger, Nicola Grillenzoni, Delphine Dardalhon-Cuménal, Jiekun Yan, Reinhard Wolf, Thomas Flatt, Erich Buchner, Bassem A Hassan  ABSTRACT Size trade-offs of visual versus olfactory organs is a pervasive feature of animal evolution. This could result from genetic or functional constraints. We demonstrate that head sensory organ size trade-offs in Drosophila are genetically encoded and arise through differentialcontinue …

Florian Schwarz, Filip Wierzbicki, Kirsten-André Senti, Robert Kofler ABSTRACT It was long thought that solely three different transposable elements (TEs)—the I-element, the P-element, and hobo—invaded natural Drosophila melanogaster populations within the last century. By sequencing the “living fossils” of Drosophila research, that is, D. melanogaster strains sampled from natural populations at different time points, we showcontinue …

Martin Kapun, Thomas Flatt ABSTRACT Chromosomal inversions, structural mutations that reverse a segment of a chromosome, cause suppression of recombination in the heterozygous state. Several studies have shown that inversion polymorphisms can form clines or fluctuate predictably in frequency over seasonal time spans. These observations prompted the hypothesis that chromosomal rearrangements might be subject tocontinue …

Annabelle Haudry, Stefan Laurent, Martin Kapun ABSTRACT Drosophila melanogaster, a small dipteran of African origin, represents one of the best-studied model organisms. Early work in this system has uniquely shed light on the basic principles of genetics and resulted in a versatile collection of genetic tools that allow to uncover mechanistic links between genotype and phenotype. Moreover, givencontinue …

Lukas Weilguny, Christos Vlachos, Divya Selvaraju, Robert Kofler ABSTRACT The P-element, one of the best understood eukaryotic transposable elements, spread in natural Drosophila melanogaster populations in the last century. It invaded American populations first and later spread to the Old World. Inferring this invasion route was made possible by a unique resource available in D. melanogaster:continue …

Yun Wang, Martin Kapun, Lena Waidele, Sven Kuenzel, Alan O. Bergland, Fabian Staubach ABSTRACT The relative importance of host control, environmental effects and stochasticity in the assemblage of host-associated microbiomes is being debated. We analysed the microbiome among fly populations that were sampled across Europe by the European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU). In ordercontinue …

Martin Kapun, Maite G Barrón, Fabian Staubach, Darren J Obbard, R Axel W Wiberg, Jorge Vieira, Clément Goubert, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Maaria Kankare, María Bogaerts-Márquez, Annabelle Haudry, Lena Waidele, Iryna Kozeretska, Elena G Pasyukova, Volker Loeschcke, Marta Pascual, Cristina P Vieira, Svitlana Serga, Catherine Montchamp-Moreau, Jessica Abbott, Patricia Gibert, Damiano Porcelli, Nico Posnien, Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, Sonjacontinue …

Megan A. Wallace, Kelsey A. Coffman, Clément Gilbert,Sanjana Ravindran, Gregory F. Albery, Jessica Abbott, Eliza Argyridou, Paola Bellosta, Andrea J. Betancourt, Hervé Colinet, Katarina Eric, Amanda Glaser-Schmitt, Sonja Grath, Mihailo Jelic, Maaria Kankare, Iryna Kozeretska, Volker Loeschcke, Catherine Montchamp-Moreau, Lino Ometto, Banu Sebnem Onder, Dorcas J. Orengo, John Parsch, Marta Pascual, Aleksandra Patenkovic, Eva Puerma,continue …

María Bogaerts-Márquez, Sara Guirao-Rico, Mathieu Gautier, Josefa González ABSTRACT While several studies in a diverse set of species have shed light on the genes underlying adaptation, our knowledge on the selective pressures that explain the observed patterns lags behind. Drosophila melanogaster is a valuable organism to study environmental adaptation because this species originated in Southerncontinue …