Rahia Mashoodh A

This study shows parental care in burying beetles acts as a genetic capacitor, storing and releasing genetic variation in offspring body size through molecular mechanisms involving chaperones and chromatin state.

The paper reveals sexual dimorphism in head size among wild burying beetles, showing males have wider heads than females for a given body size, with different scaling relationships between head width and body size.

The paper presents a crowd-sourcing approach to manually curate and classify transposable elements (TEs) from tardigrade genomes, resulting in the discovery of hundreds of new TEs.

This study shows that chronic paternal stress in mice leads to sex-specific effects on offspring behavior, partially mediated through changes in maternal care and investment.

The paper investigates the relationship between subnuclear localization and gene expression at the imprinted Dlk1-Dio3 locus, finding that transcriptional activity, not repression or parental origin, determines localization.