Amanda Larracuente
Biology
University of Rochester
United States of America
Biography
Amanda Larracuente, Assistant Professor
Research Interest
Evolutionary genetics and genomics; Intragenomic conflict and the evolution of selfish DNA; Evolutionary and functional genomics of satellite DNA; Sex chromosome and dot chromosome evolution in Drosophila
Publications
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Larracuente AM, Clark AG. Surprising differences in the variability of Y chromosomes in African and cosmopolitan populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 2013 Jan 1;193(1):201-14.
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Larracuente AM, Clark AG. Recent Selection on the Y-to-Dot Translocation in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Molecular biology and evolution. 2014 Jan 3;31(4):846-56.
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Khost DE, Eickbush DG, Larracuente AM. Single molecule long read sequencing resolves the detailed structure of complex satellite DNA loci in Drosophila melanogaster. bioRxiv. 2016 Jan 1:054155.
