Abstract
ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jaya Kumari is first author on ‘ Developmental expression patterns of toolkit genes in male accessory gland of Drosophila parallels those of mammalian prostate’, published in BiO. Jaya conducted the research described in this article while a graduate student in Pradip Sinha's lab at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India. Jaya is currently an early-career postdoc in the lab of Pradip Sinha, investigating development and carcinogenesis in Drosophila organs with squamous epithelial cells.
Highlights
What are the potential implications of these results for your field of research? The male accessory gland (MAG) and the prostate have been historically considered to be functionally equivalent
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers
Drosophila MAG produces a protein-rich seminal fluid that leads to post-mating responses in females
Summary
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jaya is currently an early-career postdoc in the lab of Pradip Sinha, investigating development and carcinogenesis in Drosophila organs with squamous epithelial cells. Distant organisms may use common sets of genes to build diverse arrays of organs This set of conserved genes is referred to as genetic toolkits: namely, those which are deployed in shaping the organ in question. I have examined the toolkit genes in Drosophila MAG to test if these may be common with the mammalian prostate. My study shows that a select set of toolkits are common between MAG and prostate. These analogous organs from very distant phylogeny display essential ground plans of development
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