David C. Rinker

TL;DR: The authors investigated the genomic basis of vectorial capacity and explore new avenues for vector control, sequenced the genomes of 16 anopheline mosquito species from diverse locations spanning ~100 million years of evolution Comparative analyses show faster rates of gene gain and loss, elevated gene shuffling on the X chromosome, and more intron losses, relative to Drosophila.

TL;DR: The identification and characterization of an Orco family agonist, VUAA1, is reported, which represents a powerful new family of compounds that can be used to disrupt the destructive behaviors of nuisance insects, agricultural pests, and disease vectors alike.

TL;DR: The use of RNA-seq is demonstrated to characterize the sensory specializations of an important disease vector and grounded future studies investigating chemosensory processes, suggesting that the chemoreceptive spectrum, as defined by gene expression profiles, is largely similar in female and male An.

TL;DR: It is posit that modest, yet cumulative, alterations of AgOr transcript levels modulate peripheral odor coding resulting in biologically relevant behavioral effects, and this results demonstrate that highly quantitative, RNAseq transcript abundance data can be successfully integrated with functional data to generate testable hypotheses.

TL;DR: This work systematically examined genome-wide sequence and functional variation between the domesticated fungus Aspergillus oryzae and its wild relative A. flavus, suggesting that whereas animal and plant domestication was largely driven by Neolithic "genetic tinkering" of developmental pathways, microbe domesticated was driven by extensive remodeling of metabolism.