MGM - McIntyre Lab
University of Florida

Rob Kulathinal

Publications

All McIntyre Lab Publications

Kulathinal, R. J. and R. S. Singh, 2008 The molecular basis of speciation: From patterns to processes, rules to mechanisms. Journal of Genetics 87: 327-38.

Shevelyov, Y. Y., S. A. Lavrov, L. M. Mikhaylova, I. D. Nurminsky, R. J. Kulathinal, K. S. Egorova, Y. M. Rozovsky, and D. I. Nurminsky, 2008 The B-type lamin is required for somatic repression of testis-specific gene clusters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 106: 3282-3287.

Kulathinal, R. J., S. M. Bennett, C. L. Fitzpatrick, and M. A. F. Noor, 2008 Fine-scale mapping of recombination rate in Drosophila refines its correlation to diversity and divergence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 105: 10051-10056.

Lemos, B., C. R. Landry, P. Fontanillas, S. C. P. Renn, R. J. Kulathinal, K. M. Brown and D. L. Hartl, 2008 Evolution of genomic expression. In Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics (Ed: Pagel and Pomiankowski), Sinauer Press, Sunderland MA.

Clark, A. G., M. B. Eisen, D. R. Smith, R. J. Kulathinal (one of 417 authors) and I. MacCullum, 2007. Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature 450: 203-2218.

Lin, M. F., J. W. Carlson, M. A. Crosby, B. B. Matthews, C. Yu, S. Park, K. H. Wan, A. J. Schroeder, L. S. Gramates, S. E. St Pierre, M. Roark, K. L. Wiley, R. J. Kulathinal, P. Zhang, K. W. Myrick, J. V. Antone, S. E. Celniker, W. M. Gelbart and M. Kellis, 2007. Revisiting the protein-coding gene catalog of Drosophila melanogaster using 12 fly genomes. Genome Research 17: 1823-1836.

Haerty, W., S. Jagadeeshan, R. J. Kulathinal, A. Wong A, K. Ravi Ram, L. K. Sirot, L. Levesque, C. G. Artieri, W. F. Wolfner, A. Civetta and R. S. Singh, 2007. Evolution in the fast lane: Rapidly evolving sex-related genes in Drosophila. Genetics 177: 1321-1335.

Singh, R. S. and R. J. Kulathinal, 2005. Male sex-drive and the masculination of the genome. BioEssays 27: 518-525.

Kulathinal, R. J. and D. L. Hartl, 2005. The latest buzz in comparative genomics. Genome Biology 6: 201-204.

Kulathinal, R. J., B. R. Bettencourt and D. L. Hartl, 2004. Compensated deleterious mutations in insect genomes. Science 306: 1553-1554.

Castillo-Davis, C. I., F. A. Kondrashov, D. L. Hartl and R. J. Kulathinal, 2004. The functional genomic distribution of protein divergence in two animal phyla: Co-evolution, genomic conflict, and constraint. Genome Research 14: 802-811.

Kulathinal, R. J., S. A. Sawyer, C. D. Bustamante, D. I. Nurminsky, R. Ponce, J. M. Ranz, and D. L. Hartl, 2004. Selective sweep in the evolution of a new sperm-specific gene in Drosophila. In Selective Sweeps, edited by D. I. Nurminsky. Kluwer Academic Press.

Kulathinal, R. J., and R. S. Singh, 2004. The nature of genetic variation in sex and reproduction related genes between the sibling species, Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. Genetica 120: 245-252.

Sawyer, S. A., R. J. Kulathinal, C. D. Bustamante, and D. L. Hartl, 2003. Bayesian analysis suggests that most amino acid replacements in Drosophila are driven by positive selection. J. Mol. Evol. 57: 154-164.

Kulathinal, R. J., L. Skwarek, R. A. Morton, and R. S. Singh, 2003. Rapid evolution of the sex-determining gene, transformer: Structural diversity and rate heterogeneity among sibling species of Drosophila. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20: 441-452.

Kulathinal, R. J., and R. S. Singh, 2003. Sex and speciation: The nature of genetic variation in sex and reproduction-related genes between sibling species. In Drosophila melanogaster, D. simulans: So similar, so different (Eds: P. Capy & P. Gibert). Genetica 120: 245-252.

Torgerson, D. G., R. J. Kulathinal, and R. S. Singh, 2002. Mammalian sperm proteins are rapidly evolving: Evidence of positive selection in functionally diverse genes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 1973-1980

Singh, R. S., and R. J. Kulathinal, 2000. Sex gene pool evolution and speciation: A new paradigm. Genes Genet. Syst. 75: 119-130.

Kulathinal, R. J., and R. S. Singh, 2000. Reinforcement with gene flow? A Reply. Evolution 54: 2176-2177.

Kulathinal, R. J., and R. S. Singh RS, 2000. A biogeographical genetic approach for testing the role of reinforcement: The case of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis. Evolution 54: 210-217.

Kulathinal, R. J., and R. S. Singh, 1998. Cytological characterization of premeiotic vs. postmeiotic defects producing hybrid male sterility among sibling species of the Drosophila melanogaster complex. Evolution 52: 1067-1079.