Stefan Rühl

This study identifies rapid evolution of mouse saliva through regulatory rewiring and gene expansions, highlighting lineage-specific genes and sex-biased expression.

The paper reconstructs the evolutionary history of amylase duplications in primates, showing convergent expression patterns and functional divergence across species.

This study investigates the evolution of saliva-related SCPP genes, identifying convergent duplications and positive selection in primates, with implications for adaptive diversification of saliva composition.

This study shows that sialic acid identity influences, but does not solely determine, host tropism of sialoglycan-binding streptococci by testing binding preferences of SLBRs to Neu5Ac and Neu5Gc.

The paper identifies the origins of salivary proteins and reveals gene repertoires specific to fetal and adult salivary glands, showing functional diversity is driven by transcriptional regulators.