Butterfly eyespots evolved via cooption of an ancestral gene-regulatory network that also patterns antennae, legs, and wings

…, V Gowri, S Monroe, KD Deem… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Butterfly eyespots are beautiful novel traits with an unknown developmental origin. Here we
show that eyespots likely originated via cooption of parts of an ancestral appendage gene-…

Evolution and molecular mechanisms of wing plasticity in aphids

KD Deem, L Gregory, X Liu, OS Ziabari… - Current Opinion in Insect …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights • Aphids produce winged and wingless phenotypes from the same genotype •
Ecdysone and insulin signaling are important regulators of this wing plasticity • Extensive …

Enhancer identification and activity evaluation in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

YT Lai, KD Deem, F Borràs-Castells… - …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Evolution of cis-regulatory elements (such as enhancers) plays an important role in the
production of diverse morphology. However, a mechanistic understanding is often limited by the …

Problems with paralogs: the promise and challenges of gene duplicates in evo-devo research

KD Deem, JA Brisson - Integrative And Comparative Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Gene duplicates, or paralogs, serve as a major source of new genetic material and
comprise seeds for evolutionary innovation. While originally thought to be quickly lost or non-…

Butterfly eyespots evolved via co-option of the antennal gene-regulatory network

…, M Gupta, M Huq, V Gowri, S Monroe, KD Deem… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Butterfly eyespots are beautiful novel traits with an unknown developmental origin. Here we
show that eyespots likely originated via co-option of the antennal gene-regulatory network (…

Transcriptomic exploration of the Coleopteran wings reveals insight into the evolution of novel structures associated with the beetle elytron

DM Linz, Y Hara, KD Deem, S Kuraku… - … Zoology Part B …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The acquisition of novel traits is central to organismal evolution, yet the molecular mechanisms
underlying this process are elusive. The beetle forewings (elytra) are evolutionarily …

Vascular Cavity Formation Enhances Oxygen Availability during Flooding in Root Tips of Phaseolus coccineus L. Primary Roots

M Takahashi, T Niki, KD Deem… - International Journal of …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Deem, … Deem … Richard Edelmann and Matt Duley of the Miami University Center for
Applied Microscopy and Imaging for technical assistance for KD Deem. …

Genetic Mechanisms Governing the Development of Polyphagan Pothorax and Their Implications to the Evolutionary Origin of Insect Wings

Y Tomoyasu, KD Deem, MR Moe - Proceedings of the Arthropodan …, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Department of Biology, Pearson Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA E-mail:
tomoyay@ miamioh. edu (YT) e evolutionary origin of insect wings has been the subject of …

Evidence for a dual origin of insect wings via cross-wiring of ancestral tergal and pleural gene regulatory networks

KD Deem - 2022 - rave.ohiolink.edu
Scientists have long been fascinated by morphological novelties, which at times seem to
spring out of the ancestral form from no pre-existing structure (or structures, ie a complex novel …

The Gametophyte of Pleopeltis lepidopteris (Langsd. & Fisch.) de la Sota (Polypodiaceae), a Fern from Restinga, after Spore Cryopreservation: Morphological …

…, ML Chambers, M Takahashi, T Niki, KD Deem… - journals.uchicago.edu
Deem, Daniel K. Gladish277286 IJPS4265910.1086/684523 Observations on
Fertilization and a Novel Cytological Mechanism for Preventing Polyspermy in the Fern …