Katju lab

Evolutionary genetics and genomics

We combine experimental evolution in C. elegans with high-throughput genomic and classical genetic approaches to study fundamental questions in evolutionary biology pertaining to the nature of spontaneous mutations and the evolution of new genes by duplication.

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Group members

Research leader: Vaishali Katju

Group members: Devshuvam Banerji, Ulfar Bergþórsson, Alexandre Schifano, Jean-Loup Claret Imbert

Publications

Friend turned foe: selfish behavior of a spontaneously arising mitochondrial deletion in an experimentally evolved Caenorhabditis elegans population

Sequeira, Abigail N.; O'Keefe, Ian P.; Katju, Vaishali; Bergthorsson, Ulfar

Part of G3, 2024
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Dissecting the sequential evolution of a selfish mitochondrial genome in Caenorhabditis elegans

Dubie, Joseph J.; Katju, Vaishali; Bergthorsson, Ulfar

Part of Heredity, p. 186-197, 2024
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Evolutionary codependency: insights into the mitonuclear interaction landscape from experimental and wild Caenorhabditis nematodes

Estes, Suzanne; Dietz, Zachary P.; Katju, Vaishali; Bergthorsson, Ulfar

Part of Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 2023
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Bergerac strains of Caenorhabditis elegans revisited: expansion of Tc1 elements imposes a significant genomic and fitness cost

Daigle, Austin T.; Deiss, Thaddeus C.; Melde, Robert H.; Bergthorsson, Ulfar et al.

Part of G3, 2022
- DOI for Bergerac strains of Caenorhabditis elegans revisited: expansion of Tc1 elements imposes a significant genomic and fitness cost
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Research areas

Evolutionary Biology