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David J Begun

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1 Novel genes derived from noncoding DNA in Drosophila melanogaster are frequently X-linked and exhibit testis-biased expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006 2.84
2 Strong selective sweep associated with a transposon insertion in Drosophila simulans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 2.65
3 Genomic variation in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 2012 2.33
4 Natural selection drives Drosophila immune system evolution. Genetics 2003 2.13
5 Population Genomics of sub-saharan Drosophila melanogaster: African diversity and non-African admixture. PLoS Genet 2012 2.09
6 A genome-wide analysis of courting and mating responses in Drosophila melanogaster females. Genome 2004 1.85
7 Genomic differentiation between temperate and tropical Australian populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 2010 1.78
8 Genomic analysis of adaptive differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 2008 1.66
9 Parallel evolution of chimeric fusion genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 1.45
10 Comparative genomics of accessory gland protein genes in Drosophila melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura. Mol Biol Evol 2004 1.23
11 Origin and spread of de novo genes in Drosophila melanogaster populations. Science 2014 1.22
12 Molecular population genetics of male accessory gland proteins in the Drosophila simulans complex. Genetics 2004 1.21
13 Molecular population genetics of accessory gland protein genes and testis-expressed genes in Drosophila mojavensis and D. arizonae. Genetics 2005 1.20
14 Genomic effects of nucleotide substitutions in Drosophila simulans. Genetics 2002 1.17
15 Molecular evolution and population genetics of duplicated accessory gland protein genes in Drosophila. Mol Biol Evol 2004 1.16
16 Molecular population genetics of female-expressed mating-induced serine proteases in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Biol Evol 2007 1.13
17 Adaptive gene expression divergence inferred from population genomics. PLoS Genet 2007 1.13
18 Patterns of polymorphism and divergence from noncoding sequences of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans: evidence for nonequilibrium processes. Mol Biol Evol 2004 1.12
19 Protein variation in Drosophila simulans, and comparison of genes from centromeric versus noncentromeric regions of chromosome 3. Mol Biol Evol 2002 1.11
20 Whole-genome expression plasticity across tropical and temperate Drosophila melanogaster populations from Eastern Australia. Mol Biol Evol 2010 1.10
21 Origin and evolution of a chimeric fusion gene in Drosophila subobscura, D. madeirensis and D. guanche. Genetics 2005 1.10
22 Genome of Drosophila suzukii, the spotted wing drosophila. G3 (Bethesda) 2013 1.08
23 Linkage disequilibrium and recent selection at three immunity receptor loci in Drosophila simulans. Genetics 2005 1.08
24 De novo ORFs in Drosophila are important to organismal fitness and evolved rapidly from previously non-coding sequences. PLoS Genet 2013 1.06
25 Parallel geographic variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 2014 1.01
26 Pervasive and largely lineage-specific adaptive protein evolution in the dosage compensation complex of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 2007 1.00
27 Accelerated sequence divergence of conserved genomic elements in Drosophila melanogaster. Genome Res 2008 0.99
28 Adaptive evolution of recently duplicated accessory gland protein genes in desert Drosophila. Genetics 2007 0.97
29 Recurrent deletion and gene presence/absence polymorphism: telomere dynamics dominate evolution at the tip of 3L in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. Genetics 2008 0.94
30 Genomic analysis of the relationship between gene expression variation and DNA polymorphism in Drosophila simulans. Genome Biol 2008 0.89
31 Evidence of spatially varying selection acting on four chromatin-remodeling loci in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 2008 0.87
32 Evolutionary genomics: codon bias and selection on single genomes. Nature 2005 0.86
33 Wolbachia do not live by reproductive manipulation alone: infection polymorphism in Drosophila suzukii and D. subpulchrella. Mol Ecol 2014 0.86
34 Comparative population genetics of the immunity gene, Relish: is adaptive evolution idiosyncratic? PLoS One 2007 0.84
35 A QTL analysis of female variation contributing to refractoriness and sperm competition in Drosophila melanogaster. Genet Res 2005 0.82
36 Population genomic analysis of base composition evolution in Drosophila melanogaster. Genome Biol Evol 2012 0.81
37 Detecting highly differentiated copy-number variants from pooled population sequencing. Pac Symp Biocomput 2013 0.78
38 Differential strengths of positive selection revealed by hitchhiking effects at small physical scales in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Biol Evol 2013 0.78
39 Rampant adaptive evolution in regions of proteins with unknown function in Drosophila simulans. PLoS One 2007 0.76