Department of Genetics

Michael Ashburner - Publications on Evolutionary Studies and the Genetics of Species Hybrids

 

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  • M. Ashburner and F. Lemeunier. 1976. Relationships within the melanogaster species subgroup of the genus Drosophila (Sophophora). I. Inversion polymorphisms in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. 193B: 137-157.
    doi:10.1098/rspb.1976.0036
    http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/193/1111/137
  • F. Lemeunier and M. Ashburner. 1976. Relationships within the melanogaster species subgroup of the genus Drosophila (Sophophora). II. Phylogenetic relationships of six species based upon polytene chromosome banding patterns. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. 193B: 275-294.
    http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/193/1112/275
    doi:10.1098/rspb.1976.0046
  • F. Lemeunier, B. Dutrillaux and M. Ashburner. 1978. Relationships within the melanogaster subgroup species of the genus Drosophila (Sophophora). III. The mitotic chromosomes and quinacrine fluorescent patterns of the polytene chromosomes. Chromosoma 69: 349-361.
    http://www.springerlink.com/content/t4q4620736914535/?p=bfc65af2188c4454b377443a77c5b703&pi=5
    doi:10.1007/BF00332138
  • R. C. Woodruff and M. Ashburner. 1978. The frequency of X-ray induced chromosome breakage in the sibling species Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. American Naturalist 112: 456-459.
    doi:10.1086/283289
  • M. Ashburner. 1981. Entomophagous and other Bizarre Drosophilidae. In: The Genetics and Biology of Drosophila Vol. 3a. Edited by M. Ashburner, J. Thompson and H. L. Carson. Academic Press, London & New York. pp. 395-429.
  • F. Lemeunier and M. Ashburner. 1984. Relationships within the melanogaster species subgroup of the genus Drosophila (Sophophora). IV. The chromosomes of two new species. Chromosoma 89: 343-351.
    http://www.springerlink.com/content/l10q820m0880x178/?p=0cbad919aa4f4a688680fe59262995a3&pi=29
    doi:10.1007/BF00331251
  • M. Ashburner, M. Bodmer and F. Lemeunier. 1984. On the evolutionary relationships of Drosophila melanogaster. Developmental Genetics 4: 295-312.
    doi:10.1002/dvg.1020040407
  • D. Lachaise, J. R. David, F. Lemeunier, L. Tsacas and M. Ashburner. 1986. The reproductive relationships of Drosophila sechellia, with Drosophila mauritiana, Drosophila simulans and Drosophila melanogaster in the Afrotropical region. Evolution 40: 262-271.
  • F. Lemeunier, J. David, L. Tsacas and M. Ashburner. 1986. The melanogaster species group. In: The Genetics and Biology of Drosophila edited by M. Ashburner, H. L. Carson and J. Thompson. Vol. 3e. Academic Press, London and New York. pp. 147-256.
    C. D. Kastritsis, Z. G. Scouras and M. Ashburner. 1986. Duplications in the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila auraria. Chromosoma 93: 381-385.
    http://www.springerlink.com/content/h748h684905u7245/?p=4d49522e09724f4f9c1e99e2c1239fbb&pi=13
    doi:10.1007/BF00327598
  • P. Hutter and M. Ashburner. 1987. Genetic rescue of inviable hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and its sibling species. Nature 327: 331-333.
    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v327/n6120/pdf/327331a0.pdf
    doi:10.1038/327331a0
  • D. Lachaise, M.-L. Cariou, J. R. David, F. Lemeunier L. Tsacas and M. Ashburner. 1988. Historical Biogeography of the Drosophila melanogaster species subgroup: A speculative paleobiogeographical essay. Evolutionary Biology 22: 159-225.
  • M. L. Cariou, D. Lachaise, L. Tsacas, J. Sourdis, C. Krimbas and M. Ashburner 1988 New African species in the Drosophila obscura species group: Genetic variation, differentiation and evolution. Heredity 61: 73-84.
    http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v61/n1/full/hdy198892a.html
    doi:10.1038/hdy.1988.92
  • P. Hutter, J. Roote and M. Ashburner. 1990. A genetic basis for the inviability of hybrids between sibling species of Drosophila. Genetics 124: 909-920.
    http://www.genetics.org/cgi/reprint/124/4/909
  • P.A. Lawrence, M. Ashburner and P. Johnston. 1993. An attempt to hybridise Drosophila species using pole cell transplantation. Genetics. 134: 1145-1148.
    http://www.genetics.org/cgi/reprint/134/4/1145
  • A.W. Davis, J. Roote, T. Morley, K. Sawamura, S. Herrmann and M. Ashburner. 1996. Rescue of hybrid female sterility in crosses between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. Nature 380: 157-159.
    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v380/n6570/pdf/380157a0.pdf
    doi:10.1038/380157a0
  • M. Ashburner. 1998. Speculations on the subject of alcohol dehydrogenase and its properties in Drosophila and other flies. BioEssays 20: 949-954.
    doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199811)20:11<949::AID-BIES10>3.0.CO;2-0
  • D. A. Barbash, J. Roote and M. Ashburner. 2000. The Drosophila melanogaster Hybrid male rescue gene causes inviability in male and female species hybrids. Genetics 154: 1747-1771.
    http://www.genetics.org/cgi/reprint/154/4/1747
  • M. Ashburner. 2000. Genetic systems in Palaearctic Diptera. In: Manual of Palaearctic Diptera Vol. 1. Edited by László Papp and Béla Darvais, Science Herald, Budapest. pp. 241-281.
  • J. Gonzalez, E. Betrán, M. Ashburner and A. Ruiz. 2000. Molecular organization of the Drosophila melanogaster Adh chromosomal region in D. repleta and D. buzzatii, two distinctly related species of the Drosophila subgenus. Chromosome Research 8: 375-385.
    http://www.springerlink.com/content/t261304g530711rk/?p=75e03f0914f8445b9b4b8df32c12def1&pi=30
    doi:10.1023/A:1009206702214
  • D.A. Barbash and M. Ashburner. 2003. A novel system for fertility rescue in Drosophila hybrids reveals a link between hybrid lethality and sterility. Genetics 163: 217-226.
    http://www.genetics.org/cgi/reprint/163/1/217
  • D.A. Barbash, J. Roote, G. Johnson and M. Ashburner. 2003. A new hybrid rescue allele in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica 120: 261-266.
    http://www.springerlink.com/content/j457226j05811680/?p=54ed6b80160c4f50aa92f1b8db5df16c&pi=20
    doi:10.1023/B:GENE.0000017647.97180.19
  • M. Ashburner and G. Bächli. 2004. Drosophila elegans Statz, 1940 (Insecta, Diptera): Proposed suppression of the specific name. Bull. of Zool. Nomenclature 61(3): 165-166.
    http://www.iczn.org/BZNSept2004cases.htm#case3306
  • P.M. O'Grady, M. Ashburner, S. Castrezana, R. DeSalle, K.K. Kaneshiro, R.T. Lapoint, K.N. Magnacca, T.A. Markow, B.F. McAllister, A. Ruiz, C.R. Vilela and F.C. de Val. 2008. Comments of the proposed conservation of usage of Drosophila Fallen 1823 (Insecta, Diptera). (Case 3407). Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 65(2): 141-144.
    http://www.iczn.org/BZNJune2008comments.html

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