Vaishali Katju

Summary

Affiliation: University of New Mexico
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi To the beat of a different drum: determinants implicated in the asymmetric sequence divergence of Caenorhabditis elegans paralogs
    Vaishali Katju
    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 13:73. 2013
  2. ncbi On the formation of novel genes by duplication in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome
    Vaishali Katju
    Department of Biology, Indiana University, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 23:1056-67. 2006
  3. ncbi Variation in gene duplicates with low synonymous divergence in Saccharomyces cerevisiae relative to Caenorhabditis elegans
    Vaishali Katju
    Department of Biology, Castetter Hall, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 0001, USA
    Genome Biol 10:R75. 2009
  4. ncbi High spontaneous rate of gene duplication in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Kendra J Lipinski
    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    Curr Biol 21:306-10. 2011
  5. ncbi The altered evolutionary trajectories of gene duplicates
    Michael Lynch
    Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
    Trends Genet 20:544-9. 2004
  6. ncbi Gene conversion and DNA sequence polymorphism in the sex-determination gene fog-2 and its paralog ftr-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Hallie S Rane
    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, NM, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 27:1561-9. 2010
  7. ncbi The structure and early evolution of recently arisen gene duplicates in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome
    Vaishali Katju
    Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
    Genetics 165:1793-803. 2003
  8. ncbi Local synteny and codon usage contribute to asymmetric sequence divergence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene duplicates
    Lijing Bu
    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 11:279. 2011
  9. ncbi Sex change by gene conversion in a Caenorhabditis elegans fog-2 mutant
    Vaishali Katju
    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
    Genetics 180:669-72. 2008

Collaborators

  • M Lynch
  • Ulfar Bergthorsson
  • Lijing Bu
  • Kendra J Lipinski
  • Hallie S Rane
  • James C Farslow
  • Kelly A Fitzpatrick
  • Jessica M Smith

Detail Information

Publications9

  1. ncbi To the beat of a different drum: determinants implicated in the asymmetric sequence divergence of Caenorhabditis elegans paralogs
    Vaishali Katju
    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 13:73. 2013
    ..In addition, I investigate if either paralog is equally likely to embark on a trajectory of accelerated sequence evolution or whether the derived paralog is more likely to exhibit faster sequence evolution...
  2. ncbi On the formation of novel genes by duplication in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome
    Vaishali Katju
    Department of Biology, Indiana University, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 23:1056-67. 2006
    ..Finally, both intron loss and gain contribute to the differential distribution of introns between two copies...
  3. ncbi Variation in gene duplicates with low synonymous divergence in Saccharomyces cerevisiae relative to Caenorhabditis elegans
    Vaishali Katju
    Department of Biology, Castetter Hall, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 0001, USA
    Genome Biol 10:R75. 2009
    ....
  4. ncbi High spontaneous rate of gene duplication in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Kendra J Lipinski
    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    Curr Biol 21:306-10. 2011
    ..elegans genome...
  5. ncbi The altered evolutionary trajectories of gene duplicates
    Michael Lynch
    Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
    Trends Genet 20:544-9. 2004
    ....
  6. ncbi Gene conversion and DNA sequence polymorphism in the sex-determination gene fog-2 and its paralog ftr-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Hallie S Rane
    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, NM, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 27:1561-9. 2010
    ....
  7. ncbi The structure and early evolution of recently arisen gene duplicates in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome
    Vaishali Katju
    Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
    Genetics 165:1793-803. 2003
    ..We propose that illegitimate recombination events leading to inverted duplications play a disproportionately large role in gene duplication within this genome in comparison with other mechanisms...
  8. ncbi Local synteny and codon usage contribute to asymmetric sequence divergence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene duplicates
    Lijing Bu
    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 11:279. 2011
    ....
  9. ncbi Sex change by gene conversion in a Caenorhabditis elegans fog-2 mutant
    Vaishali Katju
    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
    Genetics 180:669-72. 2008
    ..elegans [fog-2(lf)] spontaneously repaired the loss-of-function mutation in the fog-2 locus, thereby reestablishing hermaphroditism as the primary means of reproduction for the populations...