
| Title | Professor |
| Department | Department of Genetics |
| Institute of Biology | |
| Institution | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Address | Caixa Postal 68011 |
| CEP 21944-970 | |
| City, State, Zip | Rio de Janeiro |
| Country | Brazil |
| Phone | 5521 22608820 |
| biologia.ufrj.br | |
| Award Year | 1998 |
| Country of Origin | Brazil |
| Fellowship | Pennsylvania State University |
| Mentor | Andrew G. Clark, Ph.D. |
Research
Notwithstanding their biological importance, Y chromosomes remain poorly known in most species. I am studying the origin and evolution of these chromosomes, particularly in the Drosophila genus. A major obstacle to the study of Y-chromosomes is the identification of their sequences: due to its high content of repetitive sequences, in most genome projects the Y is fragmented into a large number of small, unmapped contains. I am developing computational and experimental methods to accomplish this, that has lead to the identification of nearly all known Drosophila Y-linked genes. Identification of Drosophila Y-chromosome genes yielded important insights on its origin and evolution.
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1998 Fellows
- Garcia Rubio, Silvina
- Bernabeu, Ramon O.
- Aballay, Alejandro
- Morfini, Gerardo
- de Carvalho, Antonio Bernardo
- Pinhal, Maria
- Castro-Obregón, Susana
- Andrés, María Estela
- Díaz, Laín F.
- Larrain, Juan A.
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