Soochin Cho
Assistant Professor
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Courses Offered
- BIO 317 - Genetics
- BIO 517 - Current Topics in Genetics
Research Interests
- Molecular evolutionary genetics and genomics in insect sex determination and sociality
- Molecular mechanism and evolution of the complementary sex determination system in honey bees
- Molecular evolution of the sex-determination pathways in insects
- Genetic/genomic bases of honey bee sociality, particularly evolution of sensory systems, inter- and intra-caste communication, and innate immunity
- Comparative and evolutionary genomics of gene family
- Origin and evolution of the ribonuclease A gene superfamily
- Adaptive evolution by gene duplication and functional diversification of the superfamily
Recent Publications
Cho, S., Huang, Z. Y., and Zhang, J. 2007. Sex-specific splicing of the honey bee doublesex gene reveals 300 million years of evolution at the bottom of the insect sex-determination pathway, Genetics 177: 1733-1741.
Cho, S., and Zhang, J. 2007. Zebrafish ribonucleases are bactericidal: Implications for the origin of the vertebrate RNase A superfamily, Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 1259-68.
Cho, S., Huang, Z. Y., Green, D. R., Smith, D. R., and Zhang, J. 2006. Evolution of the complementary sex-determination gene of honey bees: balancing selection and trans-species polymorphisms. Genome Research 16: 1366-1375.
Cho, S., and Zhang, J. 2006. Ancient expansion of the ribonuclease A superfamily revealed by genomic analysis of placental and marsupial mammals. Gene 373: 116-125.
Cho, S., Beintema, J. J., and Zhang, J. 2005. The ribonuclease A superfamily of mammals and birds: identifying new members and tracing evolutionary histories. Genomics 85: 208-220.
Cho, S., Jin, S.-W., Cohen, A. B., and Ellis, R. E. 2004.. A phylogeny of Caenorhabditis reveals frequent loss of introns during nematode evolution. Genome Research 14:1207-1220.
Last modified: August 18, 2008
