Search Results - "Arguello, J Roman"
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A molecular and neuronal basis for amino acid sensing in the Drosophila larva
Published in Scientific reports (16-12-2016)“…Amino acids are important nutrients for animals, reflected in conserved internal pathways in vertebrates and invertebrates for monitoring cellular levels of…”
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Olfactory receptor and circuit evolution promote host specialization
Published in Nature (London) (01-03-2020)“…The evolution of animal behaviour is poorly understood 1 , 2 . Despite numerous correlations between interspecific divergence in behaviour and nervous system…”
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Olfactory sensory neuron population expansions influence projection neuron adaptation and enhance odour tracking
Published in Nature communications (15-08-2024)“…The evolutionary expansion of sensory neuron populations detecting important environmental cues is widespread, but functionally enigmatic. We investigated this…”
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Open questions: Tackling Darwin's "instincts": the genetic basis of behavioral evolution
Published in BMC biology (03-04-2017)“…All of us have marveled at the remarkable diversity of animal behaviors in nature.None of us has much idea of how these have evolved…”
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Evolution of chemosensory tissues and cells across ecologically diverse Drosophilids
Published in Nature communications (05-02-2024)“…Chemosensory tissues exhibit significant between-species variability, yet the evolution of gene expression and cell types underlying this diversity remain…”
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Evidence for the fixation of gene duplications by positive selection in Drosophila
Published in Genome research (01-06-2016)“…Gene duplications play a key role in the emergence of novel traits and in adaptation. But despite their centrality to evolutionary processes, it is still…”
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Extensive local adaptation within the chemosensory system following Drosophila melanogaster’s global expansion
Published in Nature communications (13-06-2016)“…How organisms adapt to new environments is of fundamental biological interest, but poorly understood at the genetic level. Chemosensory systems provide…”
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Five Drosophila Genomes Reveal Nonneutral Evolution and the Signature of Host Specialization in the Chemoreceptor Superfamily
Published in Genetics (Austin) (01-11-2007)“…The insect chemoreceptor superfamily comprises the olfactory receptor (Or) and gustatory receptor (Gr) multigene families. These families give insects the…”
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Targeted molecular profiling of rare olfactory sensory neurons identifies fate, wiring, and functional determinants
Published in eLife (05-03-2021)“…Determining the molecular properties of neurons is essential to understand their development, function and evolution. Using Targeted DamID (TaDa), we…”
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Global diversity lines - a five-continent reference panel of sequenced Drosophila melanogaster strains
Published in G3 : genes - genomes - genetics (01-04-2015)“…Reference collections of multiple Drosophila lines with accumulating collections of "omics" data have proven especially valuable for the study of population…”
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Can yeast (S. cerevisiae) metabolic volatiles provide polymorphic signaling?
Published in PloS one (19-08-2013)“…Chemical signaling between organisms is a ubiquitous and evolutionarily dynamic process that helps to ensure mate recognition, location of nutrients, avoidance…”
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Repetitive element-mediated recombination as a mechanism for new gene origination in Drosophila
Published in PLoS genetics (01-01-2008)“…Previous studies of repetitive elements (REs) have implicated a mechanistic role in generating new chimerical genes. Such examples are consistent with the…”
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Origination of an X-linked testes chimeric gene by illegitimate recombination in Drosophila
Published in PLoS genetics (01-05-2006)“…The formation of chimeric gene structures provides important routes by which novel proteins and functions are introduced into genomes. Signatures of these…”
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Molecular Parentage Analysis in Experimental Newt Populations: The Response of Mating System Measures to Variation in the Operational Sex Ratio
Published in The American naturalist (01-10-2004)“…Molecular studies of parentage have been extremely influential in the study of sexual selection in the last decade, but a consensus statistical method for the…”
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Olfactory receptor pseudo-pseudogenes
Published in Nature (London) (03-11-2016)“…Drosophila sechellia , a species closely related to the model species Drosophila melanogaster , bypasses a premature stop codon in neuronal cells to express a…”
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Demographic History of the Human Commensal Drosophila melanogaster
Published in Genome biology and evolution (01-03-2019)“…The cohabitation of Drosophila melanogaster with humans is nearly ubiquitous. Though it has been well established that this fly species originated in…”
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Validation of Bateman's principles: a genetic study of sexual selection and mating patterns in the rough–skinned newt
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-12-2002)“…to investigate the concordance between Bateman's principles and the intensity of sexual selection. We found that males experienced strong sexual selection on…”
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Genetic structure in the coral-reef-associated Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni
Published in Molecular ecology (01-04-2005)“…In this study, we used 11 polymorphic microsatellite loci to show that oceanic distances as small as 2–5 km are sufficient to produce high levels of population…”
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Gene duplication and ectopic gene conversion in Drosophila
Published in Genes (11-02-2011)“…The evolutionary impact of gene duplication events has been a theme of Drosophila genetics dating back to the Morgan School. While considerable attention has…”
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Survey of Global Genetic Diversity Within the Drosophila Immune System
Published in Genetics (Austin) (01-01-2017)“…Numerous studies across a wide range of taxa have demonstrated that immune genes are routinely among the most rapidly evolving genes in the genome. This…”
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