Chromosomal Rearrangements in the Light of Evolutionary Genomics

A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2023) | Viewed by 124

Special Issue Editor

Fralin Life Science Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Interests: comparative genomics; cytogenetics; chromosome evolution; population genomics
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Dear Colleagues,

Chromosomal rearrangements are important players in evolution driving genetic differentiation in living organisms that may directly lead to speciation or to ecological adaptations through balanced polymorphism. Chromosomal inversions flip a piece of the chromosome by 180 degrees and produce a reverse order of the genetic material. As a result, a specific set of genes located in this part of the genome becomes protected from recombination during meiosis in heterozygotes. Combined, these sets of genes can have dramatic phenotypic effects on their carriers. Following pioneering studies conducted on polytene chromosomes in Drosophila started by T. Dobzhansky in the 1930s, chromosomal inversions were utilized to study evolutionary genetics in other Dipteran species with well-developed polytene chromosomes. The availability of the chromosome-scale genome assemblies for different organisms led to the discovery of chromosomal rearrangements in other organisms including plants, insects, mammals, and humans. Genome-based technologies offer new opportunities for the detection of chromosomal rearrangements and a better understanding of their role in ecological adaptations, genetic divergence, and evolution.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions of original research and review articles with a particular focus on chromosomal rearrangements and their role in genetic variations, ecological adaptions, population structure, and speciation. Articles on the development of new technologies focusing on the discovery of chromosomal rearrangement and comprehensive genome analyses of their structure are also welcome.

Dr. Maria Sharakhova
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • chromosome rearrangements
  • population genomics
  • genome evolution
  • chromosome
  • chromatin

Published Papers

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