Claire Davidson

TL;DR: The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project provides new insights into the organization and regulation of the authors' genes and genome, and is an expansive resource of functional annotations for biomedical research.

TL;DR: Recent Ensembl developments are presented including two new website portals, which are designed to provide core tools and services for genomes as soon as possible and has been deployed to support large biodiversity sequencing projects.

TL;DR: The results indicate that allelic combinations at known wing-patterning loci have become locked together in a polymorphic rearrangement at the P locus, forming a supergene that acts as a simple switch between complex adaptive phenotypes found in sympatry.

TL;DR: The upgraded genome of Schistosoma mansoni will form a fundamental dataset to underpin further advances in schistosome research and is consolidated into a searchable format within the GeneDB and SchistoDB databases.

TL;DR: Wing patterning loci in Heliconius melpomene show a haplotype structure maintained by selection, but no evidence for a recent selective sweep, but the complex genetic pattern contrasts with the simple genetic basis of many adaptive traits studied previously, but may provide a better model for most adaptation in natural populations that has arisen over millions rather than tens of years.