Itai Yanai
Post-doc
Research Area:
Patterning
Comparative Transcriptomics
Can gene expression programs be delineated into selective and neutrally evolving regimes through an evolutionary approach? To address this question, I am examining the C. elegans transcriptome with reference to wild strains and distantly related nematodes. Such an analysis – common at the DNA/protein sequence level – promises to reveal the evolutionary pressures acting upon a gene’s pattern of expression and lead to functional inferences.
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