Olga Y. Barmina

The paper develops a framework to identify transcript orthologs across Drosophila species, revealing conserved sex-biased alternative transcripts and their potential role in sexual conflict resolution.

This study shows that the Drosophila sex comb evolved through changes in developmental tempo and energy metabolism, not by co-opting new genes into downstream networks.

The paper develops Bayesian methods to quantify transcriptome turnover across species, finding accelerated gene expression changes in testes and accessory glands of Drosophila species.

The paper shows that enhancer sequences for the Drosophila yellow gene are entangled and non-modular, with overlapping regulatory information and specific core segments driving independent activities.

This study uses single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze the development of Drosophila leg sensory organs, identifying cell types and gene expression patterns that define mechanosensory and chemosensory neurons.

The paper identifies modular cis-regulatory elements that control doublesex expression in sexually dimorphic structures in Drosophila legs and genitalia.