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Publications

  1. Xue J, Brawner AT, Thompson JR, Yelhekar TD, Newmaster KT, Qiu Q, Cooper YA, Yu CR, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Kim Y, Lin Y. Spatiotemporal Mapping and Molecular Basis of Whole-brain Circuit Maturation. [bioRxiv preprint]. 2024 January. doi: 10.1101/2024.01.03.572456.

  2. Flynn JM, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Long M, Wing RA, Clark AG. High-Quality Genome Assemblies Reveal Evolutionary Dynamics of Repetitive DNA and Structural Rearrangements in the Drosophila virilis Subgroup. Genome Biol Evol. 2024 Jan 5;16(1). doi: 10.1093/gbe/evad238. PMID: 38159044.

  3. Garlovsky MD, Ahmed-Braimah YH. Evolutionary Quantitative Proteomics of Reproductive Protein Divergence in Drosophila. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2023 Aug;22(8):100610. doi: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100610. Epub 2023 Jun 28. PMID: 37391044.

  4. Caldas IV, Kelley LH, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Maine EM. smalldisco, a pipeline for siRNA discovery and 3' tail identification. G3 (Bethesda). 2023 Jun 1;13(6). doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad092. PMID: 37094819.

  5. Aljiboury A, Mujcic A, Curtis E, Cammerino T, Magny D, Lan Y, Bates M, Freshour J, Ahmed-Braimeh YH, Hehnly H. Pericentriolar matrix (PCM) integrity relies on cenexin and polo-like kinase (PLK)1. Mol Biol Cell. 2022 Aug 1;33(9):br14. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E22-01-0015. Epub 2022 May 24. PMID: 35609215.

  6. Li H, Janssens J, De Waegeneer M, Kolluru SS, Davie K, Gardeux V, Saelens W, David FPA, Brbić M, Spanier K, Leskovec J, McLaughlin CN, Xie Q, Jones RC, Brueckner K, Shim J, Tattikota SG, Schnorrer F, Rust K, Nystul TG, Carvalho-Santos Z, Ribeiro C, Pal S, Mahadevaraju S, Przytycka TM, Allen AM, Goodwin SF, Berry CW, Fuller MT, White-Cooper H, Matunis EL, DiNardo S, Galenza A, O'Brien LE, Dow JAT, Jasper H, Oliver B, Perrimon N, Deplancke B, Quake SR, Luo L, Aerts S, Agarwal D, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Arbeitman M, Ariss MM, Augsburger J, Ayush K, Baker CC, Banisch T, Birker K, Bodmer R, Bolival B, Brantley SE, Brill JA, Brown NC, Buehner NA, Cai XT, Cardoso-Figueiredo R, Casares F, Chang A, Clandinin TR, Crasta S, Desplan C, Detweiler AM, Dhakan DB, Donà E, Engert S, Floc'hlay S, George N, González-Segarra AJ, Groves AK, Gumbin S, Guo Y, Harris DE, Heifetz Y, Holtz SL, Horns F, Hudry B, Hung RJ, Jan YN, Jaszczak JS, Jefferis GSXE, Karkanias J, Karr TL, Katheder NS, Kezos J, Kim AA, Kim SK, Kockel L, Konstantinides N, Kornberg TB, Krause HM, Labott AT, Laturney M, Lehmann R, Leinwand S, Li J, Li JSS, Li K, Li K, Li L, Li T, Litovchenko M, Liu HH, Liu Y, Lu TC, Manning J, Mase A, Matera-Vatnick M, Matias NR, McDonough-Goldstein CE, McGeever A, McLachlan AD, Moreno-Roman P, Neff N, Neville M, Ngo S, Nielsen T, O'Brien CE, Osumi-Sutherland D, Özel MN, Papatheodorou I, Petkovic M, Pilgrim C, Pisco AO, Reisenman C, Sanders EN, Dos Santos G, Scott K, Sherlekar A, Shiu P, Sims D, Sit RV, Slaidina M, Smith HE, Sterne G, Su YH, Sutton D, Tamayo M, Tan M, Tastekin I, Treiber C, Vacek D, Vogler G, Waddell S, Wang W, Wilson RI, Wolfner MF, Wong YE, Xie A, Xu J, Yamamoto S, Yan J, Yao Z, Yoda K, Zhu R, Zinzen RP. Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly. Science. 2022 Mar 4;375(6584):eabk2432. doi: 10.1126/science.abk2432. Epub 2022 Mar 4. PMID: 35239393;.

  7. Amaro IA, Ahmed-Braimah YH, League GP, Pitcher SA, Avila FW, Cruz PC, Harrington LC, Wolfner MF. Seminal fluid proteins induce transcriptome changes in the Aedes aegypti female lower reproductive tract. BMC Genomics. 2021 Dec 15;22(1):896. doi: 10.1186/s12864-021-08201-0. PMID: 34906087.

  8. Ahmed-Braimah YH, Wolfner MF, Clark AG. Differences in Postmating Transcriptional Responses between Conspecific and Heterospecific Matings in Drosophila. Mol Biol Evol. 2021 Mar 9;38(3):986-999. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaa264. PMID: 33035303.

  9. Delbare SYN, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Wolfner MF, Clark AG. Interactions between the microbiome and mating influence the female's transcriptional profile in Drosophila melanogaster. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 23;10(1):18168. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75156-9. PMID: 33097776.

  10. Camargo C, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Amaro IA, Harrington LC, Wolfner MF, Avila FW. Mating and blood-feeding induce transcriptome changes in the spermathecae of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. Sci Rep. 2020 Sep 10;10(1):14899. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71904-z. PMID: 32913240.

  11. Stewart NB, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Cerne DG, McAllister BF. Female meiotic drive preferentially segregates derived metacentric chromosomes in Drosophila. [bioRxiv preprint]. 2019 May. doi: 10.1101/638684v1.

  12. Degner EC, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Borziak K, Wolfner MF, Harrington LC, Dorus S. Proteins, Transcripts, and Genetic Architecture of Seminal Fluid and Sperm in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2019 Mar 15;18(Suppl 1):S6-S22. doi: 10.1074/mcp.RA118.001067. Epub 2018 Dec 14. PMID: 30552291.

  13. Zhang Z, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Goldberg ML, Wolfner MF. Calcineurin-dependent Protein Phosphorylation Changes During Egg Activation in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2019 Mar 15;18(Suppl 1):S145-S158. doi: 10.1074/mcp.RA118.001076. Epub 2018 Nov 26. PMID: 30478224.

  14. Ahmed-Braimah YH, Unckless RL, Clark AG. Evolutionary Dynamics of Male Reproductive Genes in the Drosophila virilis Subgroup. G3. 2017 Sep 7;7(9):3145-3155. doi: 10.1534/g3.117.1136. PMID: 28739599.

  15. Ahmed-Braimah YH. Multiple Genes Cause Postmating Prezygotic Reproductive Isolation in the Drosophila virilis Group. G3. 2016 Dec 7;6(12):4067-4076. doi: 10.1534/g3.116.033340. PMID: 27729433.

  16. Alfonso-Parra C, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Degner EC, Avila FW, Villarreal SM, Pleiss JA, Wolfner MF, Harrington LC. Mating-Induced Transcriptome Changes in the Reproductive Tract of Female Aedes aegypti. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Feb;10(2):e0004451. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004451. eCollection 2016 Feb. PMID: 26901677.

  17. Ahmed-Braimah YH, Sweigart AL. A single gene causes an interspecific difference in pigmentation in Drosophila. Genetics. 2015 May;200(1):331-42. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.174920. Epub 2015 Mar 13. PMID: 25769982.

  18. Ahmed-Braimah YH, McAllister BF. Rapid Evolution of Assortative Fertilization between Recently Allopatric Species of Drosophila. Int J Evol Biol. 2012;2012:285468. doi: 10.1155/2012/285468. Epub 2012 Jan 18. PMID: 22315696.

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