Publications – before 2012

D. A. Barbash. Comment on “A test of the snowball theory for the rate of evolution of hybrid incompatibilities”. Science 333, 1576 (2011).

S. Maheshwari and D. A. Barbash. The genetics of hybrid incompatibilities. Annu Rev Genet 45, 331-55 (2011).

N. J. Brideau and D. A. Barbash. Functional conservation of the Drosophila hybrid incompatibility gene Lhr. BMC Evol Biol 11, 57 (2011).

D.A. Barbash. Ninety years of D. melanogaster hybrids. Genetics, 186: 1-8 (2010).

E. S. Kelleher and D.A. Barbash. Evolutionary biology: Expanding islands of speciation. (News and Views article). Nature, 465: 1019-20 (2010).

D.A. Barbash. Genetic testing of the hypothesis that hybrid male lethality results from a failure in dosage compensation. Genetics, 184: 313-316 (2010).

P.M. Ferree and D.A. Barbash. Species-specific heterochromatin prevents mitotic chromosome segregation to cause hybrid lethality in Drosophila. PLoS Biology, 7: e1000234 (2009).

S. Aruna, H.A. Flores and D.A. Barbash. Reduced fertility of Drosophila melanogaster Hybrid male rescue (Hmr) mutant females is partially complemented by Hmr orthologs from sibling species. Genetics, 181: 1437–1450 (2009).

X. C. Lin, B.C. Barringer and D.A. Barbash. The pachytene checkpoint and its relationship to evolutionary patterns of polyploidization and hybrid sterility. Heredity, 102: 24-30 (2009).

D.A. Barbash. Clash of the genomes. (Preview article). Cell, 135: 1002-1003 (2008).

S. Maheshwari, J. Wang and D.A. Barbash. Recurrent positive selection of the Drosophila hybrid incompatibility gene Hmr. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25: 2421-2430 (2008).

H-P. Yang and D.A. Barbash. Abundant and species-specific miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements in 12 Drosophila genomes. Genome Biology, 9: R39 (2008).

B.J. Bolkan, R. Booker, M.L. Goldberg and D.A. Barbash. Developmental and cell cycle progression defects in Drosophila hybrid males. Genetics, 177: 2233-2241 (2007).

Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium. Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature, 450: 203-218 (2007).

P.M. Ferree and D.A. Barbash. Distorted sex ratios – a window into RNAi-mediated silencing. PLoS Biology (primer article), 5: e303 (2007).

S-T., Chen, H-C. Cheng, D. A. Barbash and H-P. Yang. Evolution of hydra, a recently evolved testis-expressed gene with nine alternative first exons in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genetics, 3: e107 (2007).

D.A. Barbash. Nup96-dependent hybrid lethality occurs in a subset of species from the simulans clade of Drosophila. Genetics, 176: 543-552 (2007).

D.A. Barbash and J.G. Lorigan. Lethality in Drosophila melanogaster/Drosophila simulans species hybrids is not associated with substantial transcriptional misregulation. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.), 306B, 74-84 (2007). Published online Oct. 30, 2006.

N.J. Brideau*, H.A. Flores*, J. Wang*, S. Maheshwari, X. Wang and D.A. Barbash. Two Dobzhansky-Muller genes interact to cause hybrid lethality in Drosophila. Science, 314: 1292 – 1295 (2006). (*These authors contributed equally).

D.A. Barbash*, P. Awadalla*, and A.M. Tarone. Functional divergence caused by ancient positive selection of a Drosophila hybrid incompatibility locus. PLoS Biology, 2: e142 (2004). (*These authors contributed equally).

D.A. Barbash, J. Roote, G. Johnson and M. Ashburner. A new hybrid rescue allele in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica, 120: 261-266 (2004).

D.A. Barbash, D.F. Siino, A.M. Tarone, and J. Roote. A rapidly evolving MYB-related protein causes species isolation in Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100: 5302-5307 (2003).

D.A. Barbash and M. Ashburner. A novel system of fertility rescue in Drosophila hybrids reveals a link between hybrid lethality and female sterility. Genetics 163: 217-226 (2003).

D.A. Barbash, J. Roote, and M. Ashburner. The Drosophila melanogaster Hybrid male rescue gene causes lethality in both male and female species hybrids. Genetics 154: 1747-1771 (2000).

Y. Q. Zhang, J. Roote, S. Brogna, A.W. Davis, D.A. Barbash, D. Nash, and M. Ashburner. stress sensitive B encodes an adenine nucleotide translocase in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 153: 891-903 (1999).

T.W. Cline, D.Z. Rudner, D.A. Barbash, M. Bell and R. Vutien. Functioning of the Drosophila integral U1/U2 protein Snf independent of U1 and U2 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles is revealed by snf+ gene dose effects. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96:14451-14458 (1999).

G. Struhl, D.A. Barbash and P.A. Lawrence. Hedgehog organises the pattern and polarity of epidermal cells in the Drosophila abdomen. Development, 124: 2143-2154 (1997).

G. Struhl, D.A. Barbash and P.A. Lawrence. Hedgehog acts by distinct gradient and signal relay mechanisms to organise cell type and cell polarity in the Drosophila abdomen. Development, 124: 2155-2165 (1997).

A.L. Lee, B.F. Volkman, S.A. Robertson, D.Z. Rudner, D.A. Barbash, T.W. Cline, R. Kanaar, D.C. Rio, D.E. Wemmer. Chemical shift mapping of the RNA-binding interface of the multiple-RBD protein Sex-lethal. Biochemistry 36: 14306-14317 (1997).

D.A. Barbash and T.W. Cline. Genetic and molecular analysis of the autosomal component of the primary sex determination signal of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 141: 1451-1471 (1995).