@louiseheitzmann.bsky.social
Postdoc at UCR working on the evolution of Y-linked genes expression in Microtus voles.
Sex chromosomes, sexual polymorphism, sex determination, sex differentiation
Sex chromosomes, sexual polymorphism, sex determination, sex differentiation
🎉 PAPER OUT ! Happy to see another chapter of my PhD out in #MBE ! The African pygmy mouse flips the script on sex determination. Its multiple sex and neo-sex chromosomes 🤯 shape brain transcriptomes and drive sexual polymorphism, reflecting new evolutionary trajectories for sex-linked regions.
Heitzmann et al. compared brain transcriptomes of four sexual genotypes of the African pygmy mouse, showing how sex and neo-sex chromosomes impacted transcriptomes to reflect their transmission mode, evolutionary trajectories, and genomic conflicts.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf208
#evobio #molbio
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf208
#evobio #molbio
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🎉 PAPER OUT ! Happy to see another chapter of my PhD out in #MBE ! The African pygmy mouse flips the script on sex determination. Its multiple sex and neo-sex chromosomes 🤯 shape brain transcriptomes and drive sexual polymorphism, reflecting new evolutionary trajectories for sex-linked regions.