Patel, @lacholt.bsky.social et al. perform cross-species gene swap assays in D. melanogaster testes, showing that several orthologs of orphan gene Gdrd have undergone lineage-specific evolutionary changes.
š doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag119
#evobio #molbio #drosophila
Abstract. Orphan genes evolve rapidly, raising questions about whether their functions remain conserved or diverge across species. To address this, we inve
