Dr Alison Wright

All publications

Journal articles

• Price PD, Parkus SM & Wright AE (2023) Recent progress in understanding the genomic architecture of sexual conflict. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 80.
• Smith J, Alfieri JM, Anthony N, Arensburger P, Athrey GN, Balacco J, Balic A, Bardou P, Barela P, Bigot Y , Blackmon H et al (2023) Fourth report on chicken genes and chromosomes 2022. Cytogenetic and Genome Research.
• Price PD, Palmer Droguett DH, Taylor JA, Kim DW, Place ES, Rogers TF, Mank JE, Cooney CR & Wright AE (2022) Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression.. Nat Ecol Evol.
• Price PD, Palmer Droguett DH, Taylor JA, Kim DW, Place ES, Rogers TF, Mank JE, Cooney CR & Wright AE (2022) Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6, 1035-1045. View this article in WRRO
• Lin Y, Darolti I, Furman BLS, Almeida P, Sandkam BA, Breden F, Wright AE & Mank JE (2022) Gene duplication to the Y chromosome in Trinidadian Guppies. Molecular Ecology.
• Cooney CR, Mank JE & Wright AE (2021) Constraint and divergence in the evolution of male and female recombination rates in fishes. Evolution, 75(11), 2857-2866.
• Rogers TF, Pizzari T & Wright AE (2021) Multi-copy gene family evolution on the avian W chromosome. Journal of Heredity.
• Shearn R, Wright AE, Mousset S, Régis C, Penel S, Lemaitre J-F, Douay G, Crouau-Roy B, Lecompte E & Marais GAB (2020) Evolutionary stasis of the pseudoautosomal boundary in strepsirrhine primates. eLife, 9.
• Rogers TF, Palmer DH & Wright AE (2020) Sex-specific selection drives the evolution of alternative splicing in birds. Molecular Biology and Evolution.
• Darolti I, Wright AE & Mank JE (2020) Guppy Y chromosome integrity maintained by incomplete recombination suppression. Genome Biology and Evolution. View this article in WRRO
• Cooney CR, Sheard C, Clark AD, Healy SD, Liker A, Street S, Troisi CA, Szekely T, Thomas GH, Hemmings N & Wright A (2020) Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations. Nature Communications, 11. View this article in WRRO
• Furman BLS, Metzger DCH, Darolti I, Wright AE, Sandkam BA, Almeida P, Shu JJ & Mank JE (2020) Sex chromosome evolution : so many exceptions to the rules. Genome Biology and Evolution. View this article in WRRO
• Mank JE, Shu JJ & Wright AE (2019) Signature of sexual conflict is actually conflict resolved. Molecular Ecology. View this article in WRRO
• Palmer DH, Rogers TF, Dean R & Wright AE (2019) How to identify sex chromosomes and their turnover. Molecular Ecology. View this article in WRRO
• Darolti I, Wright AE, Sandkam BA, Morris J, Bloch NI, Farré M, Fuller RC, Bourne GR, Larkin DM, Breden F & Mank JE (2019) Extreme heterogeneity in sex chromosome differentiation and dosage compensation in livebearers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. View this article in WRRO
• Wright AE, Darolti I, Bloch NI, Oostra V, Sandkam BA, Buechel SD, Kolm N, Breden F, Vicoso B & Mank JE (2019) On the power to detect rare recombination events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(26), 12607-12608. View this article in WRRO
• Wright AE, Rogers TF, Fumagalli M, Cooney CR & Mank JE (2019) Phenotypic sexual dimorphism is associated with genomic signatures of resolved sexual conflict. Molecular Ecology. View this article in WRRO
• Fox EA, Wright AE, Fumagalli M & Vieira FG (2019) ngsLD: evaluating linkage disequilibrium using genotype likelihoods.. Bioinformatics. View this article in WRRO
• Morris J, Darolti I, Bloch NI, Wright AE & Mank JE (2018) Shared and Species-Specific Patterns of Nascent Y Chromosome Evolution in Two Guppy Species. Genes (Basel), 9(5). View this article in WRRO
• Wright AE, Fumagalli M, Cooney CR, Bloch NI, Vieira FG, Buechel SD, Kolm N & Mank JE (2018) Male-biased gene expression resolves sexual conflict through the evolution of sex-specific genetic architecture. Evolution Letters, 2(2), 52-61. View this article in WRRO
• Darolti I, Wright AE, Pucholt P, Berlin S & Mank JE (2018) Slow evolution of sex-biased genes in the reproductive tissue of the dioecious plant Salix viminalis. Molecular Ecology. View this article in WRRO
• Pucholt P, Wright AE, Liu Conze L, Mank JE & Berlin S (2017) Recent Sex Chromosome Divergence despite Ancient Dioecy in the Willow Salix viminalis. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(8), 1991-2001. View this article in WRRO
• Wright AE, Darolti I, Bloch NI, Oostra V, Sandkam B, Buechel SD, Kolm N, Breden F, Vicoso B & Mank JE (2017) Convergent recombination suppression suggests role of sexual selection in guppy sex chromosome formation. Nature Communications, 8. View this article in WRRO
• Dean R, Wright AE, Marsh-Rollo SE, Nugent BM, Alonzo SH & Mank JE (2017) Sperm competition shapes gene expression and sequence evolution in the ocellated wrasse. Molecular Ecology, 26(2), 505-518. View this article in WRRO
• Wright AE, Dean R, Zimmer F & Mank JE (2016) How to make a sex chromosome. Nature Communications, 7. View this article in WRRO
• Mullon C, Wright AE, Reuter M, Pomiankowski A & Mank JE (2015) Evolution of dosage compensation under sexual selection differs between X and Z chromosomes. Nature Communications, 6(1).
• Wright AE, Zimmer F, Harrison PW & Mank JE (2015) Conservation of Regional Variation in Sex-Specific Sex Chromosome Regulation. Genetics, 201(2), 587-598. View this article in WRRO
• Dean R, Harrison PW, Wright AE, Zimmer F & Mank JE (2015) Positive Selection Underlies Faster-Z Evolution of Gene Expression in Birds. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(10), 2646-2656.
• Harrison PW, Wright AE, Zimmer F, Dean R, Montgomery SH, Pointer MA & Mank JE (2015) Sexual selection drives evolution and rapid turnover of male gene expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(14), 4393-4398.
• Wright AE, Harrison PW, Zimmer F, Montgomery SH, Pointer MA & Mank JE (2015) Variation in promiscuity and sexual selection drives avian rate of Faster-Z evolution. Molecular Ecology, 24(6), 1218-1235.
• Wright AE, Harrison PW, Montgomery SH, Pointer MA & Mank JE (2014) INDEPENDENT STRATUM FORMATION ON THE AVIAN SEX CHROMOSOMES REVEALS INTER-CHROMOSOMAL GENE CONVERSION AND PREDOMINANCE OF PURIFYING SELECTION ON THE W CHROMOSOME. Evolution, 68(11), 3281-3295.
• Wright AE & Mank JE (2013) The scope and strength of sex-specific selection in genome evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26(9), 1841-1853.
• Wright AE, Moghadam HK & Mank JE (2012) Trade-off Between Selection for Dosage Compensation and Masculinization on the Avian Z Chromosome. Genetics, 192(4), 1433-1445.
• Moghadam HK, Pointer MA, Wright AE, Berlin S & Mank JE (2012) W chromosome expression responds to female-specific selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(21), 8207-8211.
• Wright AE & Mank JE (2012) Battle of the sexes: Conflict over dosage-sensitive genes and the origin of X chromosome inactivation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(14), 5144-5145.
• Harrison PW, Wright AE & Mank JE (2012) The evolution of gene expression and the transcriptome–phenotype relationship. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 23(2), 222-229. View this article in WRRO
• Bonsall MB & Wright AE (2012) Altruism and the evolution of resource generalism and specialism. Ecology and Evolution, 2(3), 515-524. View this article in WRRO
• Wright A, Almeida P, Mank J & Darolti I () A comparison of methodological approaches to the study of young sex chromosomes: A case study in Poecilia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
• Pointer MA, Harrison PW, Wright AE & Mank JE () Masculinization of Gene Expression Is Associated with Exaggeration of Male Sexual Dimorphism. PLoS Genetics, 9(8), e1003697-e1003697.

Preprints

• Cooney CR, Sheard C, Clark AD, Healy SD, Liker A, Street SE, Troisi CA, Thomas GH, Székely T, Hemmings N & Wright AE () Ecology, phylogeny, and the evolution of developmental duration in birds, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.