B.A., Biology. College of the Holy Cross. Worcester MA, USA.

Emily is interested in the functional evolution of germ line specification mechanisms.

Evolution of a cytoplasmic determinant: evidence for the biochemical basis of functional evolution of the novel germ line regulator Oskar. Blondel, L., Besse, S. Rivard, E., Ylla, G. and Extavour, C.G. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(12):5491-5513 (2021). [PubMed]

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Rivard E.L., Ludwig A.G., Patel P.H., Grandchamp A., Arnold S.E., Berger A., Scott E.M., Kelly B.J., Mascha G.C., Bornberg-Bauer E., Findlay G.D. 2021. A putative de novo evolved gene required for spermatid chromatin condensation in Drosophila melanogaster. PLOS Genetics 17(9): e1009787. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009787.