Maheshi Dassanayake

This study identifies spatial developmental reprogramming in roots of Schrenkiella parvula under salinity, revealing distinct zones and regulatory programs that enable continued growth.

The paper identifies convergent genomic signatures of salt tolerance in flowering plants by analyzing gene expression and evolutionary patterns across multiple species.

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 identifies genomic features associated with invasive success in Phragmites australis by comparing invasive and native subspecies and analyzing gene family expansions and transcriptomic responses.

This study profiles root cells from five Brassicaceae species under stress treatments, revealing cell-type-specific gene expression divergence and stress response variation across species.

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

The paper identifies a compensatory mutation, Tofu, that rescues fertility in Drosophila with null BEAF mutations by affecting rib expression.

This study identifies CrHCF244 as a psbA translation factor in Chlamydomonas, showing functional conservation with Arabidopsis HCF244 and suggesting alternative factors exist.

This study examines the transcriptional responses of two insect pests to AcMNPV infection, identifying key host and viral gene expression patterns during systemic infection.

This paper identifies a transcription factor network involving RBR and MYB proteins that governs egg cell differentiation and stress response in Arabidopsis.

The paper identifies gene transposition-duplication events in Brassicaceae genomes using a new pipeline and finds patterns related to divergence times and conservation.