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Genomics of sex differences
Dnr:

NAISS 2024/6-73

Type:

NAISS Medium Storage

Principal Investigator:

Elina Immonen

Affiliation:

Uppsala universitet

Start Date:

2024-04-01

End Date:

2025-04-01

Primary Classification:

10615: Evolutionary Biology

Allocation

Abstract

The aim of our research is to understand the evolutionary causes and consequences of sex differences. We use experimental, genetic and genomic genetic approaches to study signatures of sex-specific selection on phenotypes and genomes, using seed beetles as a model system. The current projects include 1) Testing for association between sex-specific dominance and sex-biased gene expression, using RNA-seq, 2) examining gene expression evolution and 3) allele frequency changes under different forms of sex-specific selection, using RNA-seq and pool-seq, respectively. We are also studying sex chromosome evolution in Bruchids, and for this will sequence three new genomes and transcriptomes to test how X and Y chromosomes have evolved.