Rapid evolution of female-biased genes among four species of Anopheles malaria mosquitoes
Francesco Papa, Nikolai Windbichler, Robert Michael Waterhouse, Alessia Cagnetti, Rocco D'Amato, Tania Persampieri, Mara Lawniczak, Tony Nolan, Philippos Aris Papathanos
The paper investigates the evolutionary dynamics of sex-biased genes in four Anopheles mosquito species, finding female-biased genes evolve faster than male-biased ones due to sex-specific challenges.
Genome Research · Sep 1, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics