Next week, we will continue with the genetics of speciation, focusing on the role of chromosome rearrangements. The three papers we are going to discuss are listed below:

• Baker and Bickham. 1986. Speciation by monobrachial centric fusions. PNAS 83: 8245-8248. [journal link]
• Noor et al. 2001. Chromosomal inversions and the reproductive isolation of species. PNAS 98: 12084-12088. [journal link]
• McGaugh and Noor. 2012. Genomic impact of inversions in parapatric Drosophila species. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 367: 422-429. [doi link]