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| The aim of this innovative NSF CAREER proposal is to integrate Dr Bill Ballard's research with an education, curation and study program. This site illustrates a major component of the education and curation program. The research is aimed at testing a central prediction of co-evolutionary theory that the interaction of a host and an endosymbiont should evolve from disease toward symbiosis. Specifically, the research investigates ways in which naturally occurring Wolbachia pipientis, an alpha proteobacteria, influences genetic divergence in common Drosophila simulans fruit flies. Ballard, JWO (In press). Comparative genomics of mitochondrial DNA in members of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. J. Mol. Evol. Ballard, JWO (In press). Comparative genomics of mitochondrial DNA in Drosophila simulans. J. Mol. Evol. Ballard, JWO (In press). When one is not enough: Introgression in Drosophila. Mol. Biol. Evol. James, A.C. and J.W.O. Ballard. (In press). The expression of cytoplasmic incompatibility and its impact on population frequencies and the distribution of Wolbachia strains in Drosophila simulans. Evolution. Shuster, S.M., J.W.O. Ballard, G. Zinser, C. Sassaman, and P. Keim. (In press). The influence of genetic and extrachromosomal factors on population sex ratio in the marine isopod, Paracerceis sculpta (Holmes). Proceedings of the second international conference on Isopod biology, R.C. Brusca and B. Kensley (eds), Balkema Press, Amsterdam. Click here to go back to BugCamp.
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