Evolution of MOSN, a novel sex-specifically spliced neuronal gene in the Aedes aegypti mosquito
Sex-specific RNA splicing is a conserved mechanism for generating sexual dimorphism in insects, with the best-studied examples being fruitless and doublesex. To ask whether additional sex-specifically spliced genes exist in mosquitoes, we performed differential exon usage analysis on male and female brain RNA-seq data from three mosquito species. We identified AAEL011211, which we name MOSN…
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