Browsing Duke Faculty Articles by Duke-affiliated Author "Bennett, Sarah"

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Epistasis among Drosophila persimilis Factors Conferring Hybrid Male Sterility with D-pseudoobscura bogotana

Chang, Audrey S.; Bennett, Sarah; Noor, Mohamed (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

The Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller model posits that hybrid incompatibilities result from genetic changes that accumulate during population divergence. Indeed, much effort in recent years has been devoted to identifying genes ...
Slip-Sliding Away: Serial Changes and Homoplasy in Repeat Number in the Drosophila yakuba Homolog of Human Cancer Susceptibility Gene BRCA2

Bennett, Sarah; Mercer, John; Noor, Mohamed (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Several recent studies have examined the function and evolution of a Drosophila homolog to the human breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2, named dmbrca2. We previously identified what appeared to be a recent expansion ...