Publications

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2022:
Wei KH-C, Mai D, Chatla K, Bachtrog D. Dynamics and impacts of transposable element proliferation during the Drosophila nasuta species group radiation. Mol Biol Evol. 2022;39. doi:10.1093/molbev/msac080
Wang S, Nalley MJ, Chatla K, Aldaimalani R, MacPherson A, Wei KH-C, et al. Neo-sex chromosome evolution shapes sex-dependent asymmetrical introgression barrier. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022;119: e2119382119.

2021:
Wei KH-C, Chan CC, Bachtrog D. Restricted nucleation and piRNA-mediated establishment of heterochromatin during embryogenesis in Drosophila miranda. Elife. 2021;10. doi:10.7554/eLife.55612

2020:
Wei KH-C, Gibilisco L, Bachtrog D. Epigenetic conflict on a degenerating Y chromosome increases mutational burden in Drosophila males. Nat Commun. 2020;11: 5537 doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19134-9.
Wei KH-C*, Mantha A, Bachtrog D. The theory and applications of measuring broad-range and chromosome-wide recombination rate from allele frequency decay around a selected locus. Mol Biol Evol. 2020. doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa171

2019:
Wei KH-C, Bachtrog D. Ancestral male recombination in Drosophila albomicans produced geographically restricted neo-Y chromosome haplotypes varying in age and onset of decay. PLoS Genet. 2019;15: e1008502.
Courret C, Chang C-H, Wei KH-C, Montchamp-Moreau C, Larracuente AM. Meiotic drive mechanisms: lessons from Drosophila. Proc Biol Sci. 2019;286: 20191430.

2018:
Mahajan S, Wei KH-C, Nalley MJ, Gibilisco L, Bachtrog D. De novo assembly of a young Drosophila Y chromosome using single-molecule sequencing and chromatin conformation capture. PLoS Biol. 2018;16: e2006348.
Wei KH-C*, Lower SE, Caldas IV, Sless TJS, Barbash DA, Clark AG. Variable Rates of Simple Satellite Gains across the Drosophila Phylogeny. Mol Biol Evol. 2018;35: 925–941.

2017:
Wei KH-C, Reddy HM, Rathnam C, Lee J, Lin D, Ji S, et al. A Pooled Sequencing Approach Identifies a Candidate Meiotic Driver in Drosophila. Genetics. 2017;206: 451–465.

2015:
Wei KH-C, Barbash DA. Never settling down: frequent changes in sex chromosomes. PLoS Biol. 2015;13: e1002077.

2014:
Wei KH-C, Grenier JK, Barbash DA, Clark AG. Correlated variation and population differentiation in satellite DNA abundance among lines of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014;111: 18793–18798.
Wei KH-C, Clark AG, Barbash DA. Limited gene misregulation is exacerbated by allele-specific upregulation in lethal hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. Mol Biol Evol. 2014;31: 1767–1778.

2013:
Satyaki PRV, Cuykendall TN, Wei KH-C, Brideau NJ, Kwak H, Aruna S, et al. The Hmr and Lhr Hybrid Incompatibility Genes Suppress a Broad Range of Heterochromatic Repeats. PLoS Genet. 2014;10. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004240

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