Abderrahman Khila

The study shows DNA methylation in water striders is genetically driven, not environmentally induced, challenging the role of methylation in phenotypic plasticity.

The paper shows nutrition drives gene expression changes leading to extreme growth variation in male water strider legs, with BMP11 playing a key role in mediating this effect.

The paper shows that sexual conflict and directional sexual selection, combined with phenotypic plasticity, maintain high phenotypic variation in male water striders.

The paper investigates whether male and female sexually antagonistic traits in water striders share a genetic basis, finding they are linked to a common developmental genetic program.

The study identifies the Fat/Hippo pathway as a key regulator of photoperiod-induced wing length polyphenism in Gerris buenoi through transcriptomic analysis and RNA interference.

The study identifies a single giant cell responsible for developing a key innovation in water striders, showing its role in activating cuticular genes and being restricted by Hox genes to mid-legs.

The paper examines how sexual selection influences sex-biased gene expression and genome architecture in water striders by analyzing genome and transcriptome data from males with exaggerated traits.

The paper analyzes gene and protein domain content changes across 76 arthropod genomes to understand evolutionary patterns and their association with phenotypic adaptations.

The paper presents the milkweed bug genome and comparative analyses to study molecular evolution and feeding ecology in Hemiptera.

The paper reports the sequencing and manual annotation of the Gerris buenoi genome, identifying gene expansions linked to adaptations for aquatic life.

The paper identifies an ancestral developmental module involving micropeptides and transcription factors that regulates insect embryonic patterning, showing functional plasticity despite evolutionary divergence.