Andrea J. Roth-Monzón

The paper uses single-cell RNAseq and population genomic data to show that immune cell types have faster evolutionary divergence in their characteristic genes compared to non-immune cell types.

This study tests the use of vivo-morpholino oligonucleotides for gene knockdown in threespine stickleback, showing successful knockdown of Spi1b but inconsistent effects for other genes.

The paper tests macroevolutionary stability of transcriptomic responses to an immune challenge across 15 jawed fish species, finding inconsistent gene expression patterns despite conserved phenotypic responses.

This study shows rapid genome-wide adaptive introgression in threespine stickleback following immigration, with beneficial alleles driving evolutionary change.