Transcriptional regulatory divergence underpinning species-specific learned vocalization in songbirds

Rapid Male-Specific Regulatory Divergence and Down Regulation of Spermatogenesis Genes in Drosophila Species Hybrids

In most crosses between closely related species of Drosophila, the male hybrids are sterile and show postmeiotic abnormalities. A series of gene expression studies using genomic approaches have found significant down regulation of postmeiotic spermatogenesis genes in sterile male hybrids. These results have led some to suggest a direct relationship between down regulation in gene expression and...

Vocal tract modeling as a tool to investigate species-specific cues in vocalization

Species-specific variation in nesting and postfledging resource selection for two forest breeding migrant songbirds

Habitat selection is a fundamental component of community ecology, population ecology, and evolutionary biology and can be especially important to species with complex annual habitat requirements, such as migratory birds. Resource preferences on the breeding grounds may change during the postfledging period for migrant songbirds, however, the degree to which selection changes, timing of change,...

Transcriptional Regulatory Networks across Species: Evolution, Inference, and Refinement

The determination of transcriptional regulatory networks is key to the understanding of biological systems. However, the experimental determination of transcriptional regulatory networks in the laboratory remains difficult and time-consuming, while current computational methods to infer these networks (typically from gene-expression data) achieve only modest accuracy. The latter can be attribut...

Systems biology update: cell type-specific transcriptional regulatory networks.

Plant cells use regulatory networks composed of numerous components, such as DNA, RNA, proteins, and small molecules, to regulate multiple biological processes, allowing plants to adapt to changing environments or to respond to developmental cues. The availability of high-throughput experimental methods enables researchers to determine the expression levels for thousands of genes and protein-pr...