Laurence D. Hurst

TL;DR: This work has shown that sexes are the result of selection on nuclear genes to coordinate the inheritance of cytoplasmic genomes so as to prevent competition between unrelated cy toplasmics genomes and this hypothesis is tested against five comparative predictions and shown to receive considerable empirical support.

TL;DR: This work model the evolution of a male choice gene that allows discrimination between infected and uninfected females, and shows that the stable maintenance of both female variation and male choice is likely, so long as males make mistakes when discriminating between females.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that plant biosynthetic gene clusters reside in highly interactive domains that undergo marked changes in local conformation and nuclear positioning in cluster expressing and nonexpressing organs and suggested that gene clustering in the one-dimensional chromosome is accompanied by compartmentalization of the 3D chromosome.

TL;DR: The cause of the correlation between the substitution rates at nonsynonymous and synonymous sites in mammals is investigated, and selection for RNA structure may affect silent sites in mammalian protein-coding genes.

TL;DR: With more extensive sequencing and mapping of vertebrate genomes, especially those of the early diverging chordates, it should soon become possible to resolve the origins of homologous clusters.