Artyom Kopp - Publications

Affiliations: 
Evolution and Ecology University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 
Area:
Organization of genetic regulatory circuits

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2024 Luo Y, Takau A, Li J, Fan T, Hopkins BR, Le Y, Ramirez SR, Matsuo T, Kopp A. Regulatory Changes in the Fatty Acid Elongase Underlie the Evolution of Sex-specific Pheromone Profiles in . Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 39464098 DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.09.617394  0.416
2024 Kim BY, Gellert HR, Church SH, Suvorov A, Anderson SS, Barmina O, Beskid SG, Comeault AA, Crown KN, Diamond SE, Dorus S, Fujichika T, Hemker JA, Hrcek J, Kankare M, ... ... Kopp A, et al. Single-fly genome assemblies fill major phylogenomic gaps across the Drosophilidae Tree of Life. Plos Biology. 22: e3002697. PMID 39024225 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002697  0.326
2024 Luecke D, Luo Y, Krzystek H, Jones C, Kopp A. Highly Contiguous Genome Assembly of Drosophila prolongata - a Model for Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism and Male-specific Innovations. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). PMID 39001868 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkae155  0.842
2024 Luecke D, Luo Y, Krzystek H, Jones C, Kopp A. Highly Contiguous Genome Assembly of - a Model for Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism and Male-specific Innovations. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 38352395 DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.29.577853  0.84
2024 Hopkins BR, Angus-Henry A, Kim BY, Carlisle JA, Thompson A, Kopp A. Decoupled evolution of the gene family and in Drosophilidae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121: e2312380120. PMID 38215185 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312380120  0.831
2023 Kim BY, Gellert HR, Church SH, Suvorov A, Anderson SS, Barmina O, Beskid SG, Comeault AA, Nicole Crown K, Diamond SE, Dorus S, Fujichika T, Hemker JA, Hrcek J, Kankare M, ... ... Kopp A, et al. Single-fly assemblies fill major phylogenomic gaps across the Drosophilidae Tree of Life. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 37873137 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.02.560517  0.328
2023 Hopkins BR, Angus-Henry A, Kim BY, Carlisle JA, Thompson A, Kopp A. Decoupled evolution of the gene family and in . Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 37425821 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.29.547128  0.831
2023 Hopkins BR, Barmina O, Kopp A. A single-cell atlas of the sexually dimorphic Drosophila foreleg and its sensory organs during development. Plos Biology. 21: e3002148. PMID 37379332 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002148  0.736
2022 Tanaka K, Barmina O, Thompson A, Massey JH, Kim BY, Suvorov A, Kopp A. Evolution and development of male-specific leg brushes in Drosophilidae. Development Genes and Evolution. PMID 35939093 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-022-00694-3  0.816
2022 Gao JJ, Barmina O, Thompson A, Kim BY, Suvorov A, Tanaka K, Watabe H, Toda MJ, Chen JM, Katoh TK, Kopp A. Secondary reversion to sexual monomorphism associated with tissue-specific loss of doublesex expression. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 35841603 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14564  0.816
2022 Kopp A, Barmina O. Interspecific variation in sex-specific gustatory organs in Drosophila. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. PMID 35603778 DOI: 10.1002/cne.25340  0.418
2022 Kim BY, Wang JR, Miller DE, Barmina O, Delaney E, Thompson A, Comeault AA, Peede D, D'Agostino ERR, Pelaez J, Aguilar JM, Haji D, Matsunaga T, Armstrong E, Zych M, ... ... Kopp A, et al. Correction: Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes. Elife. 11. PMID 35302486 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.78579  0.765
2022 Luecke D, Rice G, Kopp A. Sex-specific evolution of a Drosophila sensory system via interacting cis- and trans-regulatory changes. Evolution & Development. PMID 35239254 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12398  0.81
2021 Finet C, Kassner VA, Carvalho AB, Chung H, Day JP, Day S, Delaney EK, De Ré FC, Dufour HD, Dupim E, Izumitani HF, Gautério TB, Justen J, Katoh T, Kopp A, et al. DrosoPhyla: resources for Drosophilid Phylogeny and Systematics. Genome Biology and Evolution. PMID 34343293 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab179  0.812
2021 Kim BY, Wang J, Miller DE, Barmina O, Delaney EK, Thompson A, Comeault AA, Peede D, D'Agostino ER, Pelaez J, Aguilar JM, Haji D, Matsunaga T, Armstrong E, Zych M, ... ... Kopp A, et al. Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes. Elife. 10. PMID 34279216 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.66405  0.797
2021 Hopkins BR, Kopp A. Evolution of sexual development and sexual dimorphism in insects. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 69: 129-139. PMID 33848958 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2021.02.011  0.809
2020 Conner WR, Delaney EK, Bronski MJ, Ginsberg PS, Wheeler TB, Richardson KM, Peckenpaugh B, Kim KJ, Watada M, Hoffmann AA, Eisen MB, Kopp A, Cooper BS, Turelli M. A phylogeny for the Drosophila montium species group: a model clade for comparative analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107061. PMID 33387647 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107061  0.783
2020 Thompson A, May MR, Moore BR, Kopp A. A hierarchical Bayesian mixture model for inferring the expression state of genes in transcriptomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 32709743 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1919748117  0.773
2019 Luo Y, Zhang Y, Farine JP, Ferveur JF, Ramírez S, Kopp A. Evolution of sexually dimorphic pheromone profiles coincides with increased number of male-specific chemosensory organs in . Ecology and Evolution. 9: 13608-13618. PMID 31871670 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.5819  0.713
2019 Luecke DM, Kopp A. Sex-specific evolution of relative leg size in Drosophila prolongata results from changes in the intersegmental coordination of tissue growth. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 31595502 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13847  0.806
2019 Wexler J, Delaney EK, Belles X, Schal C, Wada-Katsumata A, Amicucci MJ, Kopp A. Hemimetabolous insects elucidate the origin of sexual development via alternative splicing. Elife. 8. PMID 31478483 DOI: 10.7554/Elife.47490  0.812
2019 Rice GR, Barmina O, Luecke D, Hu K, Arbeitman M, Kopp A. Modular tissue-specific regulation of underpins sexually dimorphic development in . Development (Cambridge, England). PMID 31285355 DOI: 10.1242/Dev.178285  0.824
2019 Kopp A, Barmina O, Prigent SR. Phylogenetic position of the Drosophila fima and dentissima lineages, and the status of the D. melanogaster species group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 139: 106543. PMID 31247309 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2019.106543  0.481
2019 Wexler J, Delaney EK, Belles X, Schal C, Wada-Katsumata A, Amicucci MJ, Kopp A. Author response: Hemimetabolous insects elucidate the origin of sexual development via alternative splicing Elife. DOI: 10.7554/Elife.47490.041  0.785
2018 Gompel N, Kopp A. Drosophila (Sophophora) carrolli n. sp., a new species from Brunei, closely related to Drosophila (Sophophora) rhopaloa Bock Wheeler, 1972 (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Zootaxa. 4434: 502-510. PMID 30313176 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4434.3.6  0.379
2018 Eksi SE, Barmina O, McCallough CL, Kopp A, Orenic TV. A Distalless-responsive enhancer of the Hox gene Sex combs reduced is required for segment- and sex-specific sensory organ development in Drosophila. Plos Genetics. 14: e1007320. PMID 29634724 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007320  0.803
2018 Rice G, Barmina O, Hu K, Kopp A. Evolving doublesex expression correlates with the origin and diversification of male sexual ornaments in the Drosophila immigrans species group. Evolution & Development. PMID 29372584 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12249  0.558
2017 Allen SL, Delaney EK, Kopp A, Chenoweth SF. Single-Molecule Sequencing of the Drosophila serrata Genome. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). PMID 28143951 DOI: 10.1534/G3.116.037598  0.787
2016 Signor SA, Liu Y, Rebeiz M, Kopp A. Genetic Convergence in the Evolution of Male-Specific Color Patterns in Drosophila. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 27546578 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2016.07.034  0.835
2016 Yassin A, Delaney EK, Reddiex AJ, Seher TD, Bastide H, Appleton NC, Lack JB, David JR, Chenoweth SF, Pool JE, Kopp A. The pdm3 Locus Is a Hotspot for Recurrent Evolution of Female-Limited Color Dimorphism in Drosophila. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 27546577 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2016.07.016  0.825
2015 Hoang D, Kopp A, Chandler JA. Interactions between Drosophila and its natural yeast symbionts-Is Saccharomyces cerevisiae a good model for studying the fly-yeast relationship? Peerj. 3: e1116. PMID 26336636 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1116  0.349
2014 Chen ZX, Sturgill D, Qu J, Jiang H, Park S, Boley N, Suzuki AM, Fletcher AR, Plachetzki DC, FitzGerald PC, Artieri CG, Atallah J, Barmina O, Brown JB, Blankenburg KP, ... ... Kopp A, et al. Comparative validation of the D. melanogaster modENCODE transcriptome annotation. Genome Research. 24: 1209-23. PMID 24985915 DOI: 10.1101/Gr.159384.113  0.716
2014 Arbeitman MN, Kopp A, L Siegal M, Van Doren M. The genetics of sex: exploring differences. Genetics. 197: 527-9. PMID 24939993 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.114.165456  0.399
2014 Arbeitman MN, Kopp A, Siegal ML, Van Doren M. The genetics of sex: exploring differences. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). 4: 979-81. PMID 24939183 DOI: 10.1534/G3.114.011692  0.382
2014 Plachetzki DC, Sabrina Pankey M, Johnson BR, Ronne EJ, Kopp A, Grosberg RK. Gene co-expression modules underlying polymorphic and monomorphic zooids in the colonial hydrozoan, Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 54: 276-83. PMID 24935986 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Icu080  0.469
2014 Wexler JR, Plachetzki DC, Kopp A. Pan-metazoan phylogeny of the DMRT gene family: a framework for functional studies. Development Genes and Evolution. 224: 175-81. PMID 24903586 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-014-0473-0  0.675
2014 Atallah J, Teixeira L, Salazar R, Zaragoza G, Kopp A. The making of a pest: the evolution of a fruit-penetrating ovipositor in Drosophila suzukii and related species. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20132840. PMID 24573846 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2840  0.669
2014 Atallah J, Vurens G, Mavong S, Mutti A, Hoang D, Kopp A. Sex-specific repression of dachshund is required for Drosophila sex comb development. Developmental Biology. 386: 440-7. PMID 24361261 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.12.017  0.742
2014 Bossuyt W, Chen CL, Chen Q, Sudol M, McNeill H, Pan D, Kopp A, Halder G. An evolutionary shift in the regulation of the Hippo pathway between mice and flies. Oncogene. 33: 1218-28. PMID 23563179 DOI: 10.1038/Onc.2013.82  0.577
2013 Signor S, Seher T, Kopp A. Genomic resources for multiple species in the Drosophila ananassae species group. Fly. 7: 47-57. PMID 23639891 DOI: 10.4161/Fly.22353  0.792
2013 Kopp A. Evolutionary genetics: big effect of a small RNA. Current Biology : Cb. 23: R247-9. PMID 23518058 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.02.029  0.365
2012 Kopp A. Evolutionary genetics: no coming back from neverland. Current Biology : Cb. 22: R1004-6. PMID 23218006 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.10.040  0.304
2012 Atallah J, Watabe H, Kopp A. Many ways to make a novel structure: a new mode of sex comb development in Drosophilidae. Evolution & Development. 14: 476-83. PMID 23134206 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12001  0.737
2012 Seher TD, Ng CS, Signor SA, Podlaha O, Barmina O, Kopp A. Genetic basis of a violation of Dollo's Law: re-evolution of rotating sex combs in Drosophila bipectinata. Genetics. 192: 1465-75. PMID 23086218 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.112.145524  0.836
2012 Chandler JA, Eisen JA, Kopp A. Yeast communities of diverse Drosophila species: comparison of two symbiont groups in the same hosts. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78: 7327-36. PMID 22885750 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.01741-12  0.328
2012 Sawamura K, Ting CT, Kopp A, Moyle LC. Mechanisms of speciation. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2012: 820358. PMID 22649748 DOI: 10.1155/2012/820358  0.386
2012 Kronforst MR, Barsh GS, Kopp A, Mallet J, Monteiro A, Mullen SP, Protas M, Rosenblum EB, Schneider CJ, Hoekstra HE. Unraveling the thread of nature's tapestry: the genetics of diversity and convergence in animal pigmentation. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research. 25: 411-33. PMID 22578174 DOI: 10.1111/J.1755-148X.2012.01014.X  0.374
2012 Kopp A. Dmrt genes in the development and evolution of sexual dimorphism. Trends in Genetics : Tig. 28: 175-84. PMID 22425532 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2012.02.002  0.506
2012 Kopp A, McIntyre LM. Transcriptional network structure has little effect on the rate of regulatory evolution in yeast. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29: 1899-905. PMID 20966117 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq283  0.446
2011 Kopp A. Drosophila sex combs as a model of evolutionary innovations. Evolution & Development. 13: 504-22. PMID 23016935 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00507.x  0.564
2011 Chandler JA, Lang JM, Bhatnagar S, Eisen JA, Kopp A. Bacterial communities of diverse Drosophila species: ecological context of a host-microbe model system. Plos Genetics. 7: e1002272. PMID 21966276 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1002272  0.329
2011 Tanaka K, Barmina O, Sanders LE, Arbeitman MN, Kopp A. Evolution of sex-specific traits through changes in HOX-dependent doublesex expression. Plos Biology. 9: e1001131. PMID 21886483 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.1001131  0.55
2011 Bickel RD, Kopp A, Nuzhdin SV. Composite effects of polymorphisms near multiple regulatory elements create a major-effect QTL. Plos Genetics. 7: e1001275. PMID 21249179 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1001275  0.36
2010 Arbeitman MN, Kopp A, Siegal ML, Van Doren M. Everything you always wanted to know about sex ... in flies. Sexual Development : Genetics, Molecular Biology, Evolution, Endocrinology, Embryology, and Pathology of Sex Determination and Differentiation. 4: 315-20. PMID 20926851 DOI: 10.1159/000320632  0.483
2010 Syed Z, Kopp A, Kimbrell DA, Leal WS. Bombykol receptors in the silkworm moth and the fruit fly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 9436-9. PMID 20439725 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1003881107  0.301
2009 Bickel RD, Schackwitz WS, Pennacchio LA, Nuzhdin SV, Kopp A. Contrasting patterns of sequence evolution at the functionally redundant bric à brac paralogs in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 69: 194-202. PMID 19639236 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-009-9265-Y  0.447
2009 Kopp A. Metamodels and phylogenetic replication: a systematic approach to the evolution of developmental pathways. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 63: 2771-89. PMID 19545263 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00761.x  0.427
2009 Matsuda M, Ng CS, Doi M, Kopp A, Tobari YN. Evolution in the Drosophila ananassae species subgroup. Fly. 3: 157-69. PMID 19377294 DOI: 10.4161/Fly.8395  0.697
2009 Tanaka K, Barmina O, Kopp A. Distinct developmental mechanisms underlie the evolutionary diversification of Drosophila sex combs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 4764-9. PMID 19255422 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0807875106  0.531
2009 Telonis-Scott M, Kopp A, Wayne ML, Nuzhdin SV, McIntyre LM. Sex-specific splicing in Drosophila: widespread occurrence, tissue specificity and evolutionary conservation. Genetics. 181: 421-34. PMID 19015538 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.108.096743  0.539
2009 Tanaka K, Barmina O, Kopp A. Roles of the sex-determination gene doublesex and the hox gene Sex combs reduced during sex comb development and evolution Developmental Biology. 331: 462. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ydbio.2009.05.284  0.449
2008 Williams TM, Selegue JE, Werner T, Gompel N, Kopp A, Carroll SB. The regulation and evolution of a genetic switch controlling sexually dimorphic traits in Drosophila. Cell. 134: 610-23. PMID 18724934 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.06.052  0.642
2008 Ng CS, Hamilton AM, Frank A, Barmina O, Kopp A. Genetic basis of sex-specific color pattern variation in Drosophila malerkotliana. Genetics. 180: 421-9. PMID 18723880 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.108.091728  0.698
2008 Kopp A, Barmina O, Hamilton AM, Higgins L, McIntyre LM, Jones CD. Evolution of gene expression in the Drosophila olfactory system. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25: 1081-92. PMID 18296696 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msn055  0.425
2008 Ng CS, Kopp A. Sex combs are important for male mating success in Drosophila melanogaster. Behavior Genetics. 38: 195-201. PMID 18213513 DOI: 10.1007/S10519-008-9190-7  0.68
2007 Wayne ML, Telonis-Scott M, Bono LM, Harshman L, Kopp A, Nuzhdin SV, McIntyre LM. Simpler mode of inheritance of transcriptional variation in male Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104: 18577-82. PMID 18003923 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0705441104  0.463
2007 Barmina O, Kopp A. Sex-specific expression of a HOX gene associated with rapid morphological evolution. Developmental Biology. 311: 277-86. PMID 17868668 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.07.030  0.575
2006 McIntyre LM, Bono LM, Genissel A, Westerman R, Junk D, Telonis-Scott M, Harshman L, Wayne ML, Kopp A, Nuzhdin SV. Sex-specific expression of alternative transcripts in Drosophila. Genome Biology. 7: R79. PMID 16934145 DOI: 10.1186/Gb-2006-7-8-R79  0.469
2006 Kopp A. Basal relationships in the Drosophila melanogaster species group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 39: 787-98. PMID 16527496 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.01.029  0.431
2006 Kopp A, Frank AK, Barmina O. Interspecific divergence, intrachromosomal recombination, and phylogenetic utility of Y-chromosomal genes in Drosophila. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 38: 731-41. PMID 16325432 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.10.006  0.474
2006 Kopp A, Frank A, Fu J. Historical biogeography of Drosophila simulans based on Y-chromosomal sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 38: 355-62. PMID 16051503 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.06.006  0.321
2005 Barmina O, Gonzalo M, McIntyre LM, Kopp A. Sex- and segment-specific modulation of gene expression profiles in Drosophila. Developmental Biology. 288: 528-44. PMID 16269142 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.09.052  0.508
2005 Kopp A, Frank AK. Speciation in progress? A continuum of reproductive isolation in Drosophila bipectinata. Genetica. 125: 55-68. PMID 16175455 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-005-4787-8  0.383
2005 Kopp A, Barmina O. Evolutionary history of the Drosophila bipectinata species complex. Genetical Research. 85: 23-46. PMID 16089034 DOI: 10.1017/S0016672305007317  0.427
2004 Gibson G, Riley-Berger R, Harshman L, Kopp A, Vacha S, Nuzhdin S, Wayne M. Extensive sex-specific nonadditivity of gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 167: 1791-9. PMID 15342517 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.104.026583  0.446
2004 Kopp A. Making a better worm. Nature Genetics. 36: 213-4. PMID 14988716 DOI: 10.1038/ng0304-213  0.403
2003 Wittkopp PJ, Carroll SB, Kopp A. Evolution in black and white: genetic control of pigment patterns in Drosophila. Trends in Genetics : Tig. 19: 495-504. PMID 12957543 DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(03)00194-X  0.594
2003 Kopp A, Graze RM, Xu S, Carroll SB, Nuzhdin SV. Quantitative trait loci responsible for variation in sexually dimorphic traits in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 163: 771-87. PMID 12618413  0.569
2002 Kopp A, True JR. Phylogeny of the Oriental Drosophila melanogaster species group: a multilocus reconstruction. Systematic Biology. 51: 786-805. PMID 12396591 DOI: 10.1080/10635150290102410  0.654
2002 Kopp A, True JR. Evolution of male sexual characters in the oriental Drosophila melanogaster species group. Evolution & Development. 4: 278-91. PMID 12168620 DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2002.02017.x  0.731
2002 Kopp A, Duncan I. Anteroposterior patterning in adult abdominal segments of Drosophila. Developmental Biology. 242: 15-30. PMID 11795937 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0529  0.303
2002 Kopp A, Carroll SB. Fruitflies (Communication arising): Pigmentation and mate choice in Drosophila Nature. 419: 360-360. DOI: 10.1038/419360B  0.634
2001 True JR, Kopp A, Carroll SB. Prophenoloxidase as a reporter of gene expression in Drosophila. Biotechniques. 30: 1004-6, 1008-9. PMID 11355335 DOI: 10.2144/01305St06  0.662
2001 Kopp A, Duncan I, Godt D, Carroll SB. Erratum: correction: Genetic control and evolution of sexually dimorphic characters Nature. 410: 611-611. DOI: 10.1038/35069125  0.602
2000 Kopp A, Duncan I, Godt D, Carroll SB. Genetic control and evolution of sexually dimorphic characters in Drosophila. Nature. 408: 553-9. PMID 11117736 DOI: 10.1038/35046017  0.657
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