The final chapter of my dissertation has been published at Genome Research! In this paper, we use an integrated functional genomics dataset to identify key mechanisms underlying snake venom gene regulation and to investigate the evolution of venom systems.
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Citation
Perry, B.W., S.S. Gopalan, G.I.M. Pasquesi, D.R. Schield, A.K. Westfall, C. Smith, I. Koludarov, P.T. Chippindale, M.W. Pellegrino, E.B. Choung, S.P. Mackessy, and T.A. Castoe. 2022. Snake venom expression is coordinated by novel regulatory architecture and the integration of multiple co-opted vertebrate pathways. Genome Research. doi/10.1101/gr.276251.121