{
  "id": 3877876,
  "title": "Evolution of MOSN, a novel sex-specifically spliced neuronal gene in the Aedes aegypti mosquito",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/evolution-of-mosn-a-novel-sex-specifically-spliced-neuronal-gene-in",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-27T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.26.747258v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}