1. SREEPRIYA PRAMOD
Information acquired: 2025
SREEPRIYA PRAMOD is an academic who published a paper in 2021 entitled Microsatellites as Agents of Adaptive Change: An RNA-Seq-Based Comparative Study of Transcriptomes f. SREEPRIYA PRAMOD published this work as part of a team: Ranathunge, Chathurani. Here is a description of this work: Mutations that provide environment-dependent selective advantages drive adaptive divergence among species. Many phenotypic differences among related species are more likely to result from gene expression divergence rather than from non-synonymous mutations. In this regard, cis-regulatory mutations play an important part in generating functionally significant variation. Some proposed mechanisms that explore the role of cis-regulatory mutations in gene expression divergence involve microsatellites. Microsatellites exhibit high mutation rates achieved through symmetric or asymmetric mutation processes and are abundant in both coding and non-coding regions in positions that could influence gene function and products. Here we tested the hypothesis that microsatellites contribute to gene expression divergence.
