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Avas Pakrashi

Centre for Biodiversity GenomicsORCID 0000-0001-5876-0203Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Evolutionary Biology· 1 Genomics· 1

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Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Organism:C. elegans· 1 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:non-human primate· 1

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Evolutionary BiologyProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesPeer-reviewedNov 26, 2025

HAPLODIPLOIDY ACCELERATES MITOGENOME EVOLUTION IN INSECTS

Avas Pakrashi, Ken A. Thompson, Paul D. N. Hebert

This study finds that haplodiploid insect lineages exhibit higher rates of amino acid substitution and more frequent indels in the COI gene compared to diploid lineages.

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DrosophilaC. elegans

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintJul 3, 2018

Sequencing and characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Critically Endangered Black Soft-shell Turtle (Nilssonia nigricans)

Shantanu Kundu, Vikas Kumar, Kaomud Tyagi…·Kailash Chandra

The paper sequences and annotates the complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered Black Soft-shell Turtle, identifying unique features and supporting its taxonomic classification.

DOI 10.1101/361501

DNA methylationstatistical model

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