10.7554/eLife.44392.001 The de novo emergence of new genes has been well documented
through genomic analyses. However, a functional analysis, especially of very young protein-…

Associative plasticity is a basic essential attribute of nervous systems. As shown by numerous
reports, Drosophila is able to establish simple forms of appetitive and aversive olfactory …

Background The mechanistic basis of speciation and in particular the contribution of behaviour
to the completion of the speciation process is often contentious. Contact zones between …

Systematic knockout studies in mice have shown that a large fraction of the gene replacements
show no lethal or other overt phenotypes. This has led to the development of more …

The de novo emergence of new transcripts has been well documented through genomic
analyses. However, a functional analysis, especially of very young protein-coding genes, is still …

The Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) gene region is an imprinted gene complex involved in
behavioral, metabolic and osteogenic functions. We have analyzed here the variation of two …

Figure A. 1: Structure Analysis of all individuals. 34 Figure A. 2: Structure Analysis of
founder individuals. 35 Figure A. 3: Pure vs mixed individuals by enclosure. 39 Table A. 1: …

According to the Dobzhansky–Muller model (Dobzhansky, 1937; Muller, 1942), in the
absence of gene flow, conspecific populations can become reproductively isolated, and …

… ; Rebecca Krebs-Wheaton and Anja Guenther for their advice on the behavioral experiments;
Barbara Kleinhenz and Fabian Boesel for their great laboratory-related support; and the …

This study is intended for evolutionary biologists interested in strategies for the simulation of
molecular data under diverse evolutionary scenarios. It begins with a brief background on …