Publications

2022

Nuckolls NL, Nidamangala Srinivasa A, Mok AC, Helston RM, Bravo Núñez MA, Lange JJ, Gallagher TJ, Seidel CW, Zanders SE. (2022) S. pombe wtf drivers use dual transcriptional regulation and selective protein exclusion from spores to cause meiotic drive. PLOS Genet. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009847.

2021

Billmyre, K.K., Bravo Núñez, M.A., Bishop D.K., and Cole F., Meiosis in Quarantine discussions lead to an action plan to increase diversity and inclusion within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics, 2021 Jul 15;17(7):e1009648. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009648. PMID: 34264967; PMCID: PMC8282017.

2020

Nuckolls NL, Mok AC, Lange JJ, Yi K, Kandola TS, Hunn AM, McCroskey S, Snyder JL, Bravo Núñez MA, McClain ML, McKinney SA, Wood C, Halfmann R, and Zanders SE. The wtf4 meiotic driver utilizes controlled protein aggregation to generate selective cell death. eLIFE 2020;9:e55694. doi:10.7554/eLife.55694

Bravo Núñez MA, Sabbarini IM, Eide LE, Unckless RL, Zanders SE. Atypical meiosis can be adaptive inoutcrossed Schizosaccharomyces pombe due to wtf meiotic drivers. eLIFE. 2020;9:e57936. doi:10.7554/eLife.57936

Bravo Núñez MA, Sabbarini IM, Eickbush MT, Liang Y, Lange JJ, Kent AM, and Zanders SE. Dramatically diverged S. pombe wtf meiotic drivers all display high gamete-killing efficiency. PLOS Genetics, 2020;16(2): e1008350

2019

Xia J, Chiu L-Y, Nehring RB, Bravo Núñez MA, Mei Q, Perez M, et al. Bacteria-to-Human Protein NetworksReveal Origins of Endogenous DNA Damage. Cell. 2019;176(1):127-43.e24.

2018

Bravo Núñez MA, Lange JJ, and Zanders SE, A suppressor of a wtf poison-antidote meiotic driver acts via mimicry of the driver’s antidote. PLOS Genetics 2018;12(11):e1007836

Bravo Núñez, M.A., Nuckolls, N.L. and Zanders, S.E., Genetic Villains: Killer Meiotic Drivers, Trends inGenetics, 2018 Jun;34(6):424-433.

2017

Sivaramakrishnan, P., Sepúlveda, L.A., Halliday, J.A., Liu, J., Bravo Núñez, M.A., Golding, I., Rosenberg, S.M., and Herman, C., The transcription fidelity factor GreA impedes DNA break repair. Nature, 2017.

Nuckolls, NL, Bravo Núñez, MA, Eickbush, MT, Young, JM, Lange, JJ, Yu, JS, Smith, GR, Jaspersen, SL, Malik,HS, and Zanders, SE, wtf genes are prolific dual poison-antidote meiotic drivers. eLIFE, 2017. 6.