Mosquitoes are vectors for a number of infectious diseases. Only females feed on blood to
provision for their embryos and, in doing so, transmit pathogens to the associated vertebrate …

Aedes albopictus is a major vector of arboviruses. Better understanding of its sex
determination is crucial for developing mosquito control tools, especially genetic sexing …

Aedes aegypti is a major vector of arboviruses that cause dengue, chikungunya, yellow
fever, and Zika. Although recent success in reverse genetics has facilitated rapid progress in …

The arbovirus vector Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito) is common throughout the
Indo-Pacific region, where most global dengue transmission occurs. We analysed …

Sex chromosomes have evolved frequently across the tree of life, and have been a source of
fascination for decades due to their unique evolutionary trajectories. They are hypothesised …

Genes that originate during evolution are an important source of novel biological functions.
Retrogenes are functional copies of genes produced by retroduplication and as such are …