Publications

  • McKinnon C, Drouin G. 2013. Chromatin diminution in the copepod Mesocyclops edax: elimination of both highly repetitive and nonhighly repetitive DNA. Genome 56:1-8
  • Pagé, B. and Drouin, G. 2012. Stronger purifying selection against gene conversions in a pathogenic Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain. Genome 55:835-843.
  • Drouin G. and Tsang, C. 2012. 5S rRNA gene arrangements in protists: a case of nonadaptive evolution. J. Mol. Evol. 74: 342-351.
  • Petronella N and Drouin G., 2012. Strong purifying selection against gene conversions in the trypsin genes of primates. Human Genetics 131:1739-1749.
  • McDonell, L., and Drouin, G. 2012. The abundance of processed pseudogenes derived from glycolytic genes is correlated with their expression level. Genome 55: 147-151.
  • Petronella N and Drouin G. 2011. Gene conversions in the growth hormone gene family of primates: stronger homogenizing effects in the Hominidae lineage.Genomics 98: 173-181.
  • Drouin G, Godin J-R and Pagé B. 2011. The genetics of vitamin C loss. Current Genomics 12 : 371-378.
  • Lachapelle MY and Drouin G. 2011. Inactivation dates of the human and guinea pig vitamin C genes. Genetica 139: 199-207.
  • Morris RT and Drouin G. 2011. Ectopic gene conversions in the genome of ten hemiascomycete yeast species. Int. J. Evol. Biol. 2011; 2011: 970768
  • Drouin, G. 2006. Processed pseudogenes are more abundant in the human and mouse X chromosomes than in autosomes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23:1652-1655.
  • Drouin, G. 2006. Chromatin diminution in the copepod Mesocyclops edax: diminution of tandemly repeated DNA families from somatic cells. Genome 49:657-665.
  • Hajibabaei, M., Xia J., and G. Drouin. 2006. Seed plant phylogeny: Gnetales are derived conifers and a sister group to Pinaceae. Mol. Phylo. Evol. 40:208-217.
  • Benovoy, D., and G. Drouin. 2006. Processed pseudogenes, processed genes and spontaneous mutations in the Arabidopsis genome. J. Mol. Evol. 62: 511-522.
  • Benovoy D, Morris RT, Morin A, Drouin G. 2005. Ectopic Gene Conversions Increase the G+C Content of Duplicated Yeast and Arabidopsis Genes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 22: 1865-1868.
  • Meagher RJ, Won JI, McCormick LC, Nedelcu S, Bertrand MM, Bertram JL, Drouin G, Barron AE, Slater GW. 2005. End-labeled free-solution electrophoresis of DNA. Electrophoresis 26:331-350.
  • Morris, R. T., and G. Drouin. 2004. Ectopic gene conversions in four Escherichia coli genomes: increased recombination in pathogenic strains. J. Mol. Evol.58:596-605.
  • Nickerson, J., and G. Drouin. 2004. The sequence of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II is a useful marker for inferring seed plant phylogeny. Mol. Phylo. Evol. 41: 403-415.
  • Drouin G. 2002. Characterization of the gene conversions between the multigene family members of the yeast genome. J Mol Evol 55:14-23.
  • Drouin G. 2002. Testing claims of gene conversion between multigene family members:examples from echinoderm actin genes. J Mol Evol 54:138-9.
  • Drouin G. 2000. Expressed retrotransposed 5S rRNA genes in the mouse and rat genomes. Genome 43:213-5
  • Drouin, G., Prat, F., Ell, M. and Clarke, G.D. 1999. Detecting and characterizing gene conversions between multigene family members. Mol. Biol. Evol. 10: 1369-1390.
  • Ren, H., Karger, A.E., Oaks, F., Menchen, S., Slater, G.W. and G. Drouin. 1999. Separating DNA sequencing fragments without a sieving matrix.Electrophoresis 12: 2501-2509.