Rebekah L. Rogers

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.

The paper investigates whether pigments contribute to light color variation in fireflies, finding that ommochrome and pterin pigments may filter luciferase light but no significant gene expression differences were found between color variants.

The paper examines how genetic novelty contributes to early genomic differentiation in Drosophila yakuba mayottensis, showing that transposable elements drive rapid structural variant formation.

This paper introduces TranD, a tool for comparing transcriptome structures using nucleotide-level distance metrics to assess transcript complexity and structural differences between species or annotations.