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Rachel C. Thayer

University of California, DavisORCID 0000-0001-5856-7614Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Evolutionary BiologyMolecular Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewedSep 1, 2025

No evidence of sexually antagonistic coevolution in Drosophila reproductive tract transcriptomes

Rachel C. Thayer, Elizabeth S Polston, Giovanni Hanna, David J Begun

The paper tests for sexually antagonistic coevolution in Drosophila by analyzing female post-mating transcriptomes and finds no evidence of coevolution, instead supporting environmental and female-expressed genetic factors.

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Drosophilabulk RNA-seq

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