Rujuta V. Vaidya

The paper investigates the genomic basis of hypoxia tolerance divergence between two eastern oyster populations, finding that gene regulation, not protein-coding evolution, drives population-specific differences.

The paper assembles and annotates a genome for a Chilean Tigriopus copepod population, suggesting it may represent a novel species based on divergence and morphology.

The paper examines thermal tolerance and its plasticity in copepods across populations, finding that higher heat tolerance correlates with stable peptidase expression, while plasticity is linked to chitin and ECM gene expression changes.

This study examines how heat stress adaptation in copepods involves both genetic and plastic responses, showing shared molecular mechanisms across populations.

This study meta-analyzes the impact of transgenerational and developmental plasticity on stress responses, finding that experimental and biological context, rather than plasticity type alone, predicts stress tolerance outcomes.

This study compares transcriptomic responses of diploid and triploid eastern oysters to environmental stress, finding that salinity and cohort effects strongly influence triploid mortality.