During hybrid speciation, homoeologues combine in a single genome. Homoeologue expression bias (HEB) occurs when one homoeologue has higher gene expression than another. HEB has been well characterized in plants but rarely investigated in animals, especially invertebrates. Consequently, we have little idea as to the role that HEB plays in allopolyploid invertebrate genomes. If HEB is constrained by features of the parental gen...

The special issue summarises and highlights key findings of the research unit DASIM funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the process of denitrification. Progress was made in several areas including the development of new and advanced methods to quantify N 2 fluxes such as a new 15 N gas flux method, enhanced Raman spectroscopy and a new incubation system to study plant-soil interactions in He-O 2 atmosphere. Under...

Summary The rulAB operon of P seudomonas spp. confers fitness traits on the host and has been suggested to be a hotspot for insertion of mobile elements that carry avirulence genes. Here, for the first time, we show that rulB on plasmid pWW 0 is a hotspot for the active site‐specific integration of related integron‐like elements ( ILE s) found in six environmental pseudomonads (strains FH 1– FH 6). Integration into rulB on pWW...