Journal
HEREDITY
Volume 103, Issue 1, Pages 5-14Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.34
Keywords
sex chromosome evolution; speciation; sexual conflict; biological invasions; Microbotryum; Hadena
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- Centro Stefano Franscini (ETH Zurich, Swiss NSF)
- Fondation Herbette of Lausanne University
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E020909/1, BB/E002765/1, BB/E002765/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/F018991/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/E020909/1, BB/E002765/1, BB/E002765/2] Funding Source: UKRI
- NERC [NE/F018991/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The genus Silene, studied by Darwin, Mendel and other early scientists, is re-emerging as a system for studying interrelated questions in ecology, evolution and developmental biology. These questions include sex chromosome evolution, epigenetic control of sex expression, genomic conflict and speciation. Its well-studied interactions with the pathogen Microbotryum has made Silene a model for the evolution and dynamics of disease in natural systems, and its interactions with herbivores have increased our understanding of multi-trophic ecological processes and the evolution of invasiveness. Molecular tools are now providing new approaches to many of these classical yet unresolved problems, and new progress is being made through combining phylogenetic, genomic and molecular evolutionary studies with ecological and phenotypic data. Heredity (2009) 103, 5-14; doi: 10.1038/hdy.2009.34; published online 15 April 2009
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