Dynamics of X chromosome hyper-expression and inactivation in male tissues during stick insect development. [PDF]
PLoS GeneticsDifferentiated sex chromosomes are frequently associated with major transcriptional changes: the evolution of dosage compensation (DC) to equalize gene expression between the sexes and the establishment of meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI).
Jelisaveta Djordjevic +11 more
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Parthenogenetic Females of the Stick Insect Clitarchus hookeri Maintain Sexual Traits [PDF]
Insects, 2019 The New Zealand stick insect Clitarchus hookeri has both sexual and parthenogenetic (all-female) populations. Sexual populations exhibit a scramble competition mating system with distinctive sex roles, where females are signalers and males are searchers,
Mari Nakano +3 more
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Dynamics of sex-biased gene expression during development in the stick insect Timema californicum. [PDF]
Heredity (Edinb), 2022 Sexually dimorphic phenotypes are thought to arise primarily from sex-biased gene expression during development. Major changes in developmental strategies, such as the shift from hemimetabolous to holometabolous development, are therefore expected to ...
Djordjevic J +4 more
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X chromosomes show relaxed selection and complete somatic dosage compensation across Timema stick insect species. [PDF]
J Evol Biol, 2022 Sex chromosomes have evolved repeatedly across the tree of life. As they are present in different copy numbers in males and females, they are expected to experience different selection pressures than the autosomes, with consequences including a faster ...
Parker DJ +4 more
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Calcium imaging of CPG-evoked activity in efferent neurons of the stick insect. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The stick insect is a well-established experimental animal to study the neural basis of walking. Here, we introduce a preparation that allows combining calcium imaging in efferent neurons with electrophysiological recordings of motor neuron activity in ...
Jens Goldammer +3 more
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A Reversible Secret Image Sharing Scheme Based on Stick Insect Matrix
IEEE Access, 2020 This paper first proposes a generation algorithm of a stick insect matrix. Then, a novel reversible secret image sharing scheme based on the stick insect matrix is presented.
Kai Gao +3 more
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Molecular Ecology, 2023 AbstractEpigenetic mechanisms, such as DNA methylation, can influence gene regulation and affect phenotypic variation, raising the possibility that they contribute to ecological adaptation. Beginning to address this issue requires high‐resolution sequencing studies of natural populations to pinpoint epigenetic regions of potential ecological and ...
de Carvalho, Clarissa +7 more
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Comparative Neuroanatomy of the Mechanosensory Subgenual Organ Complex in the Peruvian Stick Insect, Oreophoetes peruana [PDF]
Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 2022 The subgenual organ complex in the leg of Polyneoptera (Insecta) consists of several chordotonal organs specialized to detect mechanical stimuli from substrate vibrations and airborne sound.
Johannes Strauß
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Multiple Identified Neurons and Peripheral Nerves Innervating the Prothoracic Defense Glands in Stick Insects Reveal Evolutionary Conserved and Novel Elements of a Chemical Defense System [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2017 The defense glands in the dorsal prothorax are an important autapomorphic trait of stick insects (Phasmatodea). Here, we study the functional anatomy and neuronal innervation of the defense glands in Anisomorpha paromalus (Westwood, 1859 ...
Johannes Strauß +5 more
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Stick insect in Burmese amber reveals an early evolution of lateral lamellae in the Mesozoic. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2018 Chen S +6 more
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