Publications
A female Aedes aegypti mosquito engorges on blood. Photo: Alex Wild
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Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
Goldman O.V., DeFoe A.E., Qi Y., Jiao Y., Weng S.-C., Houri-Zeevi L., Lakhiani P., Morita T., Razzauti J., Rosas-Villegas A., Tsitohay Y.N., Walker M.M., Hopkins B.R., Mosquito Cell Atlas Consortium, Akbari O.S., Duvall L.B., White-Cooper H., Sorrells T.R., Sharma R., Li H., Vosshall L.B., Shai N. (2025) bioRxiv 2025.02.25.639765 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.25.639765
Glial cells diverge in fly brain evolution
Jiao, Y., and Sorrells, T.R. (2025). Glial cells diverge in fly brain evolution. PLOS Biol. 23, e3003136. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003136.
A persistent behavioral state ensures sustained predation of humans by mosquitoes
Sorrells, T.R., Pandey, A., Rosas, A., Vosshall, L.B. (2022) eLife 11:e76663 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.76663
Sensory discrimination of blood and floral nectar by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
Jové V., Gong, Z., Hol, F., Zhao, Z., Sorrells, T.R., Carroll, T.S., Prakash, M., McBride, C.S., and Vosshall, L.B. (2020) Neuron 108(6), 1163-1180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.09.019
Protein-coding changes preceded cis-regulatory gains in a newly evolved transcription circuit.
Britton, C. S., Sorrells, T.R., & Johnson, A. D. (2020). Science 367(6473), 96–100. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax5217
Intrinsic cooperativity potentiates parallel cis-regulatory evolution.
Sorrells, T.R., Johnson, A.N., Howard, C.J., Britton, C.S., Fowler, K.R., Feigerle, J.T., Weil, A.P., Johnson, A.D. (2018) eLife 7, 1881. 10.7554/eLife.37563
Intersecting transcription networks constrain gene regulatory evolution
Sorrells, T.R., Booth, L.N., Tuch, B.B., Johnson, A.D. (2015) Intersecting transcription networks constrain gene regulatory evolution. Nature 523:361-365.
Making sense of transcription networks
Sorrells, T.R., Johnson, A.D. (2015) Cell 161(4):714-723. (review article)