Sujay Naik
sujaynaik.bsky.social
Sujay Naik
@sujaynaik.bsky.social
PhD w/ Ella Preger-Ben Noon at Technion | Developmental genetics 🪰🧬
Reposted by Sujay Naik
Check out our new preprint on the evolution of enhancer loss. Turns out there are 50 ways to lose a function. We found four of them.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Distinct mechanisms decommission redundant enhancers to facilitate phenotypic evolution
The evolutionary loss of morphological traits is often driven by changes in gene regulation. Many developmental genes are controlled by multiple, redundant enhancers, raising the question of how robus...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM