Publications

Iskander Said, Michael P McGurk, Andrew G Clark, Daniel A Barbash, Patterns of piRNA Regulation in Drosophila Revealed through Transposable Element Clade Inference, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2022, msab336, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab336

Zinshteyn, Daniel, and Daniel A. Barbash. 2022. “Stonewall Prevents Expression of Ectopic Genes in the Ovary and Accumulates at Insulator Elements in D. Melanogaster.” PLoS Genetics 18 (3): e1010110.

Jin, Bozhou, Daniel A. Barbash, and Dean M. Castillo. 2022. “Divergent Selection on Behavioural and Chemical Traits between Reproductively Isolated Populations of Drosophila Melanogaster.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35 (5): 693–707.

M.P. McGurk, A-M. Dion-Côté, D.A. Barbash. Rapid evolution at the telomere: transposable element dynamics at an intrinsically unstable locus. Genetics, 217:iyaa027. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyaa027 (2021).

Kelleher ES, Barbash DA, Blumenstiel JP.  Taming the turmoil within: New insights on the containment of transposable elements.  Trends Genetics, 36(7):474-489 (2020).

Wang, D. A. Barbash, E. S. Kelleher. Adaptive evolution among cytoplasmic piRNA proteins leads to decreased genomic auto-immunity. PLoS Genetics, 16(6):e1008861 (2020).

S.E. Lower, A-M. Dion-Côté, A.G. Clark, D.A. Barbash. Special Issue: repetitive DNA sequences. Genes 10(11): 896 (2019).

M.P. McGurk and D.A. Barbash. Double insertion of transposable elements provides a substrate for the evolution of satellite DNA. Genome Research 28: 714-725 (2018).

J. M. Flynn, S. E. Lower, D. A. Barbash and A. G. Clark. Rates and patterns of mutation in tandem repetitive DNA in six independent lineages of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Genome Biol Evol, 10:1673-1686 (2018).

K. H-C. Wei, S. E. Sander, I. V. Caldas, T. J. Sless, D. A. Barbash, A. G. Clark. Variable rates of simple satellite gains across the Drosophila phylogeny. Mol Biol Evol, 35, 925-941 (2018).

S. S. Lower, M. P. McGurk, A. G. Clark, D. A. Barbash. Satellite DNA evolution: old ideas, new approaches. Current Opin Genet Dev, 49:70-78 (2018).

S Marsit, A-M Dion-Côté and D. A. Barbash. Did mitochondria kill the frog? Dev Cell, 44: 539-541 (2018).

JA Blum, S Bonaccorsi, M Marzullo, V Palumbo, YM Yamashita, DA Barbash, and M Gatti.
The hybrid incompatibility genes Lhr and Hmr are required for sister chromatid detachment during anaphase but not for centromere function. Genetics, 207:1457-1472 (2017).

K. H-C. Wei, H. M. Reddy, C. Rathnam, J. Lee, D. Lin, S. Ji, J. M. Mason, A. G. Clark and D. A. Barbash. A pooled sequencing approach identifies a candidate meiotic driver in Drosophila. Genetics, 206, 451-465 (2017).

A-M Dion-Côté and D. A. Barbash. Beyond speciation genes: an overview of genome stability in evolution and speciation. Current Opin Genet Dev, 47, 17-23 (2017).

D. M. Castillo and D. A. Barbash. Moving speciation genetics forward: modern techniques build on foundational studies in Drosophila. Genetics, 207, 825-842 (2017).

H. A. Flores, J. E. Bubnell, C. F. Aquadro and D. A. Barbash. The Drosophila bag of marbles gene interacts genetically with Wolbachia and shows female-specific effects of divergence. PLoS Genetics 11, e1005453 (2015).

W. D. Gilliland, E. M. Colwell, D. M. Osiecki, S. Park, D. Lin, C. Rathnam, D. A. Barbash. Normal segregation of a foreign-species chromosome during Drosophila female meiosis despite extensive heterochromatin divergence. Genetics 199, 73-83 (2015).

H. A. Flores, V. L. Bauer DuMont, A. Fatoo, D. Hubbard, M. Hijji, D. A. Barbash, C. F. Aquadro. Adaptive Evolution of Genes Involved in the Regulation of Germline Stem Cells in Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. G3 (Bethesda) 5, 583-592 (2015).

Wei, K.H., and Barbash, D.A. Never settling down: frequent changes in sex chromosomes. PLoS Biol 13, e1002077 (2015).

A. D. Kern, D. A. Barbash, J. C. Mell, D. Hupalo, A. Jensen. Highly constrained intergenic Drosophila ultraconserved elements are candidate ncRNAs. Genome Biol Evol 7, 689-698 (2015).

P.R.V. Satyaki, T. N. Cuykendall, K. H-C. Wei, N. J. Brideau, H. Kwak, S. Aruna, P. M. Ferree, S. Ji and D. A. Barbash. The Hmr and Lhr hybrid incompatibility genes suppress a broad range of heterochromatic repeats. PLoS Genetics, 10, e1004240 (2014).

P. M. Ferree, K. Gomez, P. Rominger, D. Howard, H. Kornfeld and D. A. Barbash. Heterochromatin position effects on circularized sex chromosomes cause filicidal embryonic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics, 196:1001-5 (2014).

K. H. -C. Wei, J. K. Grenier, D. A. Barbash, A. G. Clark. Correlated variation and population differentiation in satellite DNA abundance among lines of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111, 18793-8 (2014).

K. H.-C. Wei, A. G. Clark, D. A. Barbash. Limited gene misregulation is exacerbated by allele-specific upregulation in lethal hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. Mol Biol Evol 31, 1767-78 (2014).

T. N. Cuykendall, P. Satyaki, S. Ji, D. M. Clay, N. B. Edelman, A. Kimchy, L. -H. Li, E. A. Nuzzo, N. Parekh, S. Park, D. A. Barbash. A screen for F1 hybrid male rescue reveals no major-effect hybrid lethality loci in the Drosophila melanogaster autosomal genome. G3 (Bethesda) 4, 2451-60 (2014).

E. S. Kelleher and D. A. Barbash. Analysis of piRNA-mediated silencing of active TEs in Drosophila melanogaster suggests limits on the evolution of host genome defense. Mol Biol Evol, 30: 16-29 (2013).

E. S. Kelleher, N. B. Edelman and Daniel A. Barbash. Drosophila interspecific hybrids phenocopy piRNA-pathway mutants. PLoS Biology 10, e1001428 (2012).

S. Maheshwari and D. A. Barbash. An indel polymorphism in the hybrid incompatibility gene Lethal hybrid rescue of Drosophila is functionally relevant. Genetics, 192, 683-91 (2012).

S. Maheshwari and D. A. Barbash. Cis-by-Trans regulatory divergence causes the asymmetric lethal effects of an ancestral hybrid incompatibility gene. PLoS Genetics, 8, e1002597 (2012).

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