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Daniel Barbash DO

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUMass Chan – Baystate Regional Campus
DepartmentSurgery at UMass Chan - Baystate
AddressBaystate Medical Center
3300 Main Street
Springfield MA 01107
Phone413-794-5161
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    University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United StatesBSBiomedical Engineering
    Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Harlem, NY, United StatesDO

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    1. McCormick BK, Barbash DA. A method to screen for meiotic drive using embryonic markers. bioRxiv. 2026 May 26. PMID: 42244573.
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    2. Cacchione S, Cenci G, Dion-C?t? AM, Barbash DA, Raffa GD. Maintaining Telomeres without Telomerase in Drosophila: Novel Mechanisms and Rapid Evolution to Save a Genus. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2025 03 03; 17(3). PMID: 39694814.
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    3. Barbash D, Steinberger M, Torabi J, Yaffe H, Ajaimy M, Akalin E, Liriano LE, Azzi Y, Jain S, Pynadath C, Muhdi N, Le M, Graham JA. Priority Should be Given to Centers that Split En Bloc Pediatric Kidneys to Maximize Transplantation: A Single Center Experience. Transplant Proc. 2025 Mar; 57(2):250-254. PMID: 39884941.
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    4. Said I, Barbash DA, Clark AG. The Structure of Simple Satellite Variation in the Human Genome and Its Correlation With Centromere Ancestry. Genome Biol Evol. 2024 08 05; 16(8). PMID: 39018452.
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    5. Barbash DA, Jin B, Wei KHC, Dion-C?t? AM. Testing a candidate meiotic drive locus identified by pool sequencing. G3 (Bethesda). 2023 11 01; 13(11). PMID: 37766472.
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    6. Castillo DM, McCormick B, Kean CM, Natesan S, Barbash DA. Testing the Drosophila maternal haploid gene for functional divergence and a role in hybrid incompatibility. G3 (Bethesda). 2022 08 25; 12(9). PMID: 35876798.
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    7. Barbash D, Trivedi AA, Yang JY, Nguyen RB, Huribal JC, Zuberi J, Elsawy O, Wessner S. Incidental discovery of goblet cell carcinoid, a rare appendiceal malignancy case report. J Surg Case Rep. 2022 Jul; 2022(7):rjac356. PMID: 35919700.
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    8. Trivedi A, Yang J, Barbash D, Sartorato F, Scheinberg DJ, Meyers M, Zuberi J, Rebein B. Surgeon's Impact on Opioid Epidemic Following Uncomplicated Laparoscopic Appendectomy and Cholecystectomy. Cureus. 2022 May; 14(5):e25160. PMID: 35733500.
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    9. Jin B, Barbash DA, Castillo DM. Divergent selection on behavioural and chemical traits between reproductively isolated populations of Drosophila melanogaster. J Evol Biol. 2022 05; 35(5):693-707. PMID: 35411988.
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    10. Zinshteyn D, Barbash DA. Stonewall prevents expression of ectopic genes in the ovary and accumulates at insulator elements in D. melanogaster. PLoS Genet. 2022 03; 18(3):e1010110. PMID: 35324887.
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    11. Said I, McGurk MP, Clark AG, Barbash DA. Patterns of piRNA Regulation in Drosophila Revealed through Transposable Element Clade Inference. Mol Biol Evol. 2022 01 07; 39(1). PMID: 34921315.
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    12. McGurk MP, Dion-C?t? AM, Barbash DA. Rapid evolution at the Drosophila telomere: transposable element dynamics at an intrinsically unstable locus. Genetics. 2021 02 09; 217(2). PMID: 33724410.
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    13. Wang L, Barbash DA, Kelleher ES. Adaptive evolution among cytoplasmic piRNA proteins leads to decreased genomic auto-immunity. PLoS Genet. 2020 06; 16(6):e1008861. PMID: 32525870.
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    14. Kelleher ES, Barbash DA, Blumenstiel JP. Taming the Turmoil Within: New Insights on the Containment of Transposable Elements. Trends Genet. 2020 07; 36(7):474-489. PMID: 32473745.
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    15. Lower SE, Dion-C?t? AM, Clark AG, Barbash DA. Special Issue: Repetitive DNA Sequences. Genes (Basel). 2019 11 06; 10(11). PMID: 31698818.
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    16. Flynn JM, Lower SE, Barbash DA, Clark AG. Rates and Patterns of Mutation in Tandem Repetitive DNA in Six Independent Lineages of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Genome Biol Evol. 2018 07 01; 10(7):1673-1686. PMID: 29931069.
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    17. Wei KH, Lower SE, Caldas IV, Sless TJS, Barbash DA, Clark AG. Variable Rates of Simple Satellite Gains across the Drosophila Phylogeny. Mol Biol Evol. 2018 04 01; 35(4):925-941. PMID: 29361128.
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    18. McGurk MP, Barbash DA. Double insertion of transposable elements provides a substrate for the evolution of satellite DNA. Genome Res. 2018 05; 28(5):714-725. PMID: 29588362.
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    19. Lower SS, McGurk MP, Clark AG, Barbash DA. Satellite DNA evolution: old ideas, new approaches. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2018 04; 49:70-78. PMID: 29579574.
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    20. Marsit S, Dion-C?t? AM, Barbash DA. Did Mitochondria Kill the Frog? Dev Cell. 2018 03 12; 44(5):539-541. PMID: 29533769.
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    21. Castillo DM, Barbash DA. Moving Speciation Genetics Forward: Modern Techniques Build on Foundational Studies in Drosophila. Genetics. 2017 11; 207(3):825-842. PMID: 29097397.
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    22. Blum JA, Bonaccorsi S, Marzullo M, Palumbo V, Yamashita YM, Barbash DA, Gatti M. The Hybrid Incompatibility Genes Lhr and Hmr Are Required for Sister Chromatid Detachment During Anaphase but Not for Centromere Function. Genetics. 2017 12; 207(4):1457-1472. PMID: 29046402.
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    23. Dion-C?t? AM, Barbash DA. Beyond speciation genes: an overview of genome stability in evolution and speciation. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2017 Dec; 47:17-23. PMID: 28830007.
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    24. Wei KH, Reddy HM, Rathnam C, Lee J, Lin D, Ji S, Mason JM, Clark AG, Barbash DA. A Pooled Sequencing Approach Identifies a Candidate Meiotic Driver in Drosophila. Genetics. 2017 05; 206(1):451-465. PMID: 28258181.
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    25. Flores HA, Bubnell JE, Aquadro CF, Barbash DA. The Drosophila bag of marbles Gene Interacts Genetically with Wolbachia and Shows Female-Specific Effects of Divergence. PLoS Genet. 2015 Aug; 11(8):e1005453. PMID: 26291077.
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    26. Wei KH, Barbash DA. Never settling down: frequent changes in sex chromosomes. PLoS Biol. 2015 Apr; 13(4):e1002077. PMID: 25881199.
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    27. Flores HA, DuMont VL, Fatoo A, Hubbard D, Hijji M, Barbash DA, Aquadro CF. Adaptive evolution of genes involved in the regulation of germline stem cells in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. G3 (Bethesda). 2015 Feb 09; 5(4):583-92. PMID: 25670770.
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    28. Kern AD, Barbash DA, Chang Mell J, Hupalo D, Jensen A. Highly constrained intergenic Drosophila ultraconserved elements are candidate ncRNAs. Genome Biol Evol. 2015 Jan 23; 7(3):689-98. PMID: 25618141.
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    29. Wei KH, Grenier JK, Barbash DA, Clark AG. Correlated variation and population differentiation in satellite DNA abundance among lines of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Dec 30; 111(52):18793-8. PMID: 25512552.
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    30. Gilliland WD, Colwell EM, Osiecki DM, Park S, Lin D, Rathnam C, Barbash DA. Normal segregation of a foreign-species chromosome during Drosophila female meiosis despite extensive heterochromatin divergence. Genetics. 2015 Jan; 199(1):73-83. PMID: 25406466.
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    31. Cuykendall TN, Satyaki P, Ji S, Clay DM, Edelman NB, Kimchy A, Li LH, Nuzzo EA, Parekh N, Park S, Barbash DA. A screen for F1 hybrid male rescue reveals no major-effect hybrid lethality loci in the Drosophila melanogaster autosomal genome. G3 (Bethesda). 2014 Oct 27; 4(12):2451-60. PMID: 25352540.
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    32. Wei KH, Clark AG, Barbash DA. Limited gene misregulation is exacerbated by allele-specific upregulation in lethal hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. Mol Biol Evol. 2014 Jul; 31(7):1767-78. PMID: 24723419.
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    33. Satyaki PR, Cuykendall TN, Wei KH, Brideau NJ, Kwak H, Aruna S, Ferree PM, Ji S, Barbash DA. The Hmr and Lhr hybrid incompatibility genes suppress a broad range of heterochromatic repeats. PLoS Genet. 2014 Mar; 10(3):e1004240. PMID: 24651406.
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    34. Ferree PM, Gomez K, Rominger P, Howard D, Kornfeld H, Barbash DA. Heterochromatin position effects on circularized sex chromosomes cause filicidal embryonic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 2014 Apr; 196(4):1001-5. PMID: 24478337.
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    35. Nadler JW, Barbash D, Kim HR, Shimpi S, Angelaki DE, DeAngelis GC. Joint representation of depth from motion parallax and binocular disparity cues in macaque area MT. J Neurosci. 2013 Aug 28; 33(35):14061-74, 14074a. PMID: 23986242.
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    36. Kelleher ES, Barbash DA. Analysis of piRNA-mediated silencing of active TEs in Drosophila melanogaster suggests limits on the evolution of host genome defense. Mol Biol Evol. 2013 Aug; 30(8):1816-29. PMID: 23625890.
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    37. Kelleher ES, Edelman NB, Barbash DA. Drosophila interspecific hybrids phenocopy piRNA-pathway mutants. PLoS Biol. 2012; 10(11):e1001428. PMID: 23189033.
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    38. Maheshwari S, Barbash DA. An indel polymorphism in the hybrid incompatibility gene lethal hybrid rescue of Drosophila is functionally relevant. Genetics. 2012 Oct; 192(2):683-91. PMID: 22865735.
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    39. Maheshwari S, Barbash DA. Cis-by-Trans regulatory divergence causes the asymmetric lethal effects of an ancestral hybrid incompatibility gene. PLoS Genet. 2012; 8(3):e1002597. PMID: 22457639.
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    40. Barbash DA. Comment on "A test of the snowball theory for the rate of evolution of hybrid incompatibilities". Science. 2011 Sep 16; 333(6049):1576; author reply 1576. PMID: 21921181.
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    41. Maheshwari S, Barbash DA. The genetics of hybrid incompatibilities. Annu Rev Genet. 2011; 45:331-55. PMID: 21910629.
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    42. Brideau NJ, Barbash DA. Functional conservation of the Drosophila hybrid incompatibility gene Lhr. BMC Evol Biol. 2011 Mar 02; 11:57. PMID: 21366928.
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    43. Barbash DA. Ninety years of Drosophila melanogaster hybrids. Genetics. 2010 Sep; 186(1):1-8. PMID: 20855573.
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    44. Kelleher ES, Barbash DA. Evolutionary biology: Expanding islands of speciation. Nature. 2010 Jun 24; 465(7301):1019-20. PMID: 20577200.
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    45. Ferree PM, Barbash DA. Species-specific heterochromatin prevents mitotic chromosome segregation to cause hybrid lethality in Drosophila. PLoS Biol. 2009 Oct; 7(10):e1000234. PMID: 19859525.
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    46. Barbash DA. Genetic testing of the hypothesis that hybrid male lethality results from a failure in dosage compensation. Genetics. 2010 Jan; 184(1):313-6. PMID: 19841095.
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    47. Aruna S, Flores HA, Barbash DA. Reduced fertility of Drosophila melanogaster hybrid male rescue (Hmr) mutant females is partially complemented by Hmr orthologs from sibling species. Genetics. 2009 Apr; 181(4):1437-50. PMID: 19153254.
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    48. Barbash DA. Clash of the genomes. Cell. 2008 Dec 12; 135(6):1002-3. PMID: 19070568.
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    49. Maheshwari S, Wang J, Barbash DA. Recurrent positive selection of the Drosophila hybrid incompatibility gene Hmr. Mol Biol Evol. 2008 Nov; 25(11):2421-30. PMID: 18755760.
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    50. Yang HP, Barbash DA. Abundant and species-specific DINE-1 transposable elements in 12 Drosophila genomes. Genome Biol. 2008; 9(2):R39. PMID: 18291035.
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    51. Clark AG, Eisen MB, Smith DR, Bergman CM, Oliver B, Markow TA, Kaufman TC, Kellis M, Gelbart W, Iyer VN, Pollard DA, Sackton TB, Larracuente AM, Singh ND, Abad JP, Abt DN, Adryan B, Aguade M, Akashi H, Anderson WW, Aquadro CF, Ardell DH, Arguello R, Artieri CG, Barbash DA, Barker D, Barsanti P, Batterham P, Batzoglou S, Begun D, Bhutkar A, Blanco E, Bosak SA, Bradley RK, Brand AD, Brent MR, Brooks AN, Brown RH, Butlin RK, Caggese C, Calvi BR, Bernardo de Carvalho A, Caspi A, Castrezana S, Celniker SE, Chang JL, Chapple C, Chatterji S, Chinwalla A, Civetta A, Clifton SW, Comeron JM, Costello JC, Coyne JA, Daub J, David RG, Delcher AL, Delehaunty K, Do CB, Ebling H, Edwards K, Eickbush T, Evans JD, Filipski A, Findeiss S, Freyhult E, Fulton L, Fulton R, Garcia AC, Gardiner A, Garfield DA, Garvin BE, Gibson G, Gilbert D, Gnerre S, Godfrey J, Good R, Gotea V, Gravely B, Greenberg AJ, Griffiths-Jones S, Gross S, Guigo R, Gustafson EA, Haerty W, Hahn MW, Halligan DL, Halpern AL, Halter GM, Han MV, Heger A, Hillier L, Hinrichs AS, Holmes I, Hoskins RA, Hubisz MJ, Hultmark D, Huntley MA, Jaffe DB, Jagadeeshan S, Jeck WR, Johnson J, Jones CD, Jordan WC, Karpen GH, Kataoka E, Keightley PD, Kheradpour P, Kirkness EF, Koerich LB, Kristiansen K, Kudrna D, Kulathinal RJ, Kumar S, Kwok R, Lander E, Langley CH, Lapoint R, Lazzaro BP, Lee SJ, Levesque L, Li R, Lin CF, Lin MF, Lindblad-Toh K, Llopart A, Long M, Low L, Lozovsky E, Lu J, Luo M, Machado CA, Makalowski W, Marzo M, Matsuda M, Matzkin L, McAllister B, McBride CS, McKernan B, McKernan K, Mendez-Lago M, Minx P, Mollenhauer MU, Montooth K, Mount SM, Mu X, Myers E, Negre B, Newfeld S, Nielsen R, Noor MA, O'Grady P, Pachter L, Papaceit M, Parisi MJ, Parisi M, Parts L, Pedersen JS, Pesole G, Phillippy AM, Ponting CP, Pop M, Porcelli D, Powell JR, Prohaska S, Pruitt K, Puig M, Quesneville H, Ram KR, Rand D, Rasmussen MD, Reed LK, Reenan R, Reily A, Remington KA, Rieger TT, Ritchie MG, Robin C, Rogers YH, Rohde C, Rozas J, Rubenfield MJ, Ruiz A, Russo S, Salzberg SL, Sanchez-Gracia A, Saranga DJ, Sato H, Schaeffer SW, Schatz MC, Schlenke T, Schwartz R, Segarra C, Singh RS, Sirot L, Sirota M, Sisneros NB, Smith CD, Smith TF, Spieth J, Stage DE, Stark A, Stephan W, Strausberg RL, Strempel S, Sturgill D, Sutton G, Sutton GG, Tao W, Teichmann S, Tobari YN, Tomimura Y, Tsolas JM, Valente VL, Venter E, Venter JC, Vicario S, Vieira FG, Vilella AJ, Villasante A, Walenz B, Wang J, Wasserman M, Watts T, Wilson D, Wilson RK, Wing RA, Wolfner MF, Wong A, Wong GK, Wu CI, Wu G, Yamamoto D, Yang HP, Yang SP, Yorke JA, Yoshida K, Zdobnov E, Zhang P, Zhang Y, Zimin AV, Baldwin J, Abdouelleil A, Abdulkadir J, Abebe A, Abera B, Abreu J, Acer SC, Aftuck L, Alexander A, An P, Anderson E, Anderson S, Arachi H, Azer M, Bachantsang P, Barry A, Bayul T, Berlin A, Bessette D, Bloom T, Blye J, Boguslavskiy L, Bonnet C, Boukhgalter B, Bourzgui I, Brown A, Cahill P, Channer S, Cheshatsang Y, Chuda L, Citroen M, Collymore A, Cooke P, Costello M, D'Aco K, Daza R, De Haan G, DeGray S, DeMaso C, Dhargay N, Dooley K, Dooley E, Doricent M, Dorje P, Dorjee K, Dupes A, Elong R, Falk J, Farina A, Faro S, Ferguson D, Fisher S, Foley CD, Franke A, Friedrich D, Gadbois L, Gearin G, Gearin CR, Giannoukos G, Goode T, Graham J, Grandbois E, Grewal S, Gyaltsen K, Hafez N, Hagos B, Hall J, Henson C, Hollinger A, Honan T, Huard MD, Hughes L, Hurhula B, Husby ME, Kamat A, Kanga B, Kashin S, Khazanovich D, Kisner P, Lance K, Lara M, Lee W, Lennon N, Letendre F, LeVine R, Lipovsky A, Liu X, Liu J, Liu S, Lokyitsang T, Lokyitsang Y, Lubonja R, Lui A, MacDonald P, Magnisalis V, Maru K, Matthews C, McCusker W, McDonough S, Mehta T, Meldrim J, Meneus L, Mihai O, Mihalev A, Mihova T, Mittelman R, Mlenga V, Montmayeur A, Mulrain L, Navidi A, Naylor J, Negash T, Nguyen T, Nguyen N, Nicol R, Norbu C, Norbu N, Novod N, O'Neill B, Osman S, Markiewicz E, Oyono OL, Patti C, Phunkhang P, Pierre F, Priest M, Raghuraman S, Rege F, Reyes R, et al. Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature. 2007 Nov 08; 450(7167):203-18. PMID: 17994087.
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    52. Ferree PM, Barbash DA. Distorted sex ratios: a window into RNAi-mediated silencing. PLoS Biol. 2007 Nov 06; 5(11):e303. PMID: 17988175.
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    53. Bolkan BJ, Booker R, Goldberg ML, Barbash DA. Developmental and cell cycle progression defects in Drosophila hybrid males. Genetics. 2007 Dec; 177(4):2233-41. PMID: 17947412.
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    54. Chen ST, Cheng HC, Barbash DA, Yang HP. Evolution of hydra, a recently evolved testis-expressed gene with nine alternative first exons in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genet. 2007 Jul; 3(7):e107. PMID: 17616977.
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    55. Barbash DA. Nup96-dependent hybrid lethality occurs in a subset of species from the simulans clade of Drosophila. Genetics. 2007 May; 176(1):543-52. PMID: 17409061.
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    56. Barbash DA, Lorigan JG. Lethality in Drosophila melanogaster/Drosophila simulans species hybrids is not associated with substantial transcriptional misregulation. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2007 Jan 15; 308(1):74-84. PMID: 17075830.
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    57. Brideau NJ, Flores HA, Wang J, Maheshwari S, Wang X, Barbash DA. Two Dobzhansky-Muller genes interact to cause hybrid lethality in Drosophila. Science. 2006 Nov 24; 314(5803):1292-5. PMID: 17124320.
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    58. Barbash DA, Awadalla P, Tarone AM. Functional divergence caused by ancient positive selection of a Drosophila hybrid incompatibility locus. PLoS Biol. 2004 Jun; 2(6):e142. PMID: 15208709.
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    59. Barbash DA, Roote J, Johnson G, Ashburner M. A new hybrid rescue allele in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica. 2004 Mar; 120(1-3):261-6. PMID: 15088664.
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    60. Barbash DA, Siino DF, Tarone AM, Roote J. A rapidly evolving MYB-related protein causes species isolation in Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Apr 29; 100(9):5302-7. PMID: 12695567.
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    61. Barbash DA, Ashburner M. A novel system of fertility rescue in Drosophila hybrids reveals a link between hybrid lethality and female sterility. Genetics. 2003 Jan; 163(1):217-26. PMID: 12586709.
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