Spencer A. Koury

The paper extends a crossover model to account for experimental mortality in Drosophila melanogaster by incorporating binomial survival rates and marker-associated viability defects.

The paper estimates a higher recombination rate in Drosophila pseudoobscura Sex Ratio chromosomes and shows mitotic exchange in female germline stem cells is the main source of recombination.

The paper analyzes the evolutionary dynamics of a segregation distorter in Drosophila pseudoobscura, finding that it persists due to suppressed recombination and epistatic selection.

The paper models the survival probability of new chromosomal inversions in Drosophila melanogaster, showing larger, proximally located inversions have shorter persistence times due to meiotic drive.

The paper examines the distal shift pattern in paracentric inversions across six Drosophila species and identifies a female meiotic drive mechanism as its underlying cause.

The paper tests a hypothesis that recombination suppression in chromosomal inversion heterozygotes is due to chiasma-like properties of breakpoints, using genetic data from Drosophila melanogaster.