The evolutionary causes and consequences of sex-biased gene expression

J Parsch, H Ellegren - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
Females and males often differ extensively in their physical traits. This sexual dimorphism is
largely caused by differences in gene expression. Recent advances in genomics, such as …

Diversity and dynamics of the Drosophila transcriptome

JB Brown, N Boley, R Eisman, GE May, MH Stoiber… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Animal transcriptomes are dynamic, with each cell type, tissue and organ system expressing
an ensemble of transcript isoforms that give rise to substantial diversity. Here we have …

Evolution of sex-specific pace-of-life syndromes: genetic architecture and physiological mechanisms

E Immonen, A Hämäläinen, W Schuett… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2018 - Springer
Sex differences in life history, physiology, and behavior are nearly ubiquitous across taxa,
owing to sex-specific selection that arises from different reproductive strategies of the sexes …

Sex-specific splicing occurs genome-wide during early Drosophila embryogenesis

M Ray, AM Conard, J Urban, P Mahableshwarkar… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Sex-specific splicing is an essential process that regulates sex determination and drives
sexual dimorphism. Yet, how early in development widespread sex-specific transcript …

Genome-wide comparative analyses of GATA transcription factors among 19 Arabidopsis ecotype genomes: Intraspecific characteristics of GATA transcription factors

M Kim, H **, J Park - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
GATA transcription factors (TFs) are widespread eukaryotic regulators whose DNA-binding
domain is a class IV zinc finger motif (CX2CX17-20CX2C) followed by a basic region. Due to …

The human skeletal muscle transcriptome: sex differences, alternative splicing, and tissue homogeneity assessed with RNA sequencing

ME Lindholm, M Huss, BW Solnestam… - The FASEB …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Human skeletal muscle health is important for quality of life and several chronic diseases,
including type II diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Skeletal muscle is a tissue widely used …

Alternative Splicing within and between Drosophila Species, Sexes, Tissues, and Developmental Stages

L Gibilisco, Q Zhou, S Mahajan, D Bachtrog - PLoS genetics, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Alternative pre-mRNA splicing (“AS”) greatly expands proteome diversity, but little is known
about the evolutionary landscape of AS in Drosophila and how it differs between embryonic …

Alternative splicing: a potential source of functional innovation in the eukaryotic genome

L Chen, JM Tovar-Corona… - International journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Alternative splicing (AS) is a common posttranscriptional process in eukaryotic organisms,
by which multiple distinct functional transcripts are produced from a single gene. The …

A feminizing switch in a hemimetabolous insect

JC Zhuo, HH Zhang, QL Hu, JL Zhang, JB Lu, HJ Li… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The mechanism of sex determination remains poorly understood in hemimetabolous insects.
Here, in the brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, a hemipteran rice pest, we …

Regulated functional alternative splicing in Drosophila

JP Venables, J Tazi, F Juge - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing expands the coding capacity of metazoan genes, and it was largely
genetic studies in the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster that established the principle that …