Jennifer A. Brisson

This study shows that early life environment has long-term effects on alternative splicing in pea aphids, independent of morph identity.

The paper re-annotates pea aphid genomes using an integrated approach to improve gene models and enable better analysis of duplication and evolution.

The paper generates a chromatin accessibility map of pea aphid brain and embryo using ATAC-seq, identifying tissue-specific regulatory elements and their relationship to gene expression.

The paper shows that maternal behavioral noise drives phenotypic variation in pea aphids by accumulating environmental cues, linking stochastic behavior to morphological plasticity.

The paper examines how maternal environmental conditions affect phenotypic integration in pea aphid offspring, showing differential impacts on morphology and transcription.

The paper analyzes gene duplication and sub-functionalization in the wing gene regulatory network of pea aphids, finding limited morph-biased expression and functional divergence in duplicated genes.