Publications of Chen Xie

Heinen, T.; Xie, C.; Keshavarz, M.; Stappert, D.; Künzel, S.; Tautz, D.: Evolution of a new testis-specific functional promoter within the highly conserved MAP2K7 gene of the mouse. Frontiers in Genetics 12, 812139 (2022)

Zhang, W.; Xie, C.; Ullrich, K.; Zhang, Y. E.; Tautz, D.: The mutational load in natural populations is significantly affected by high primary rates of retroposition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (6), e2013043118 (2021)

Xie, C.; Bekpen, C.; Künzel, S.; Keshavarz, M.; Krebs-Wheaton, R.; Skrabar, N.; Ullrich, K. K.; Zhang, W.; Tautz, D.: Dedicated transcriptomics combined with power analysis lead to functional understanding of genes with weak phenotypic changes in knockout lines. PLoS Computational Biology 16 (11), e1008354 (2020)

Xie, C.; Bekpen, C.; Künzel, S.; Keshavarz, M.; Krebs-Wheaton, R.; Skrabar, N.; Ullrich, K. K.; Tautz, D.: A de novo evolved gene in the house mouse regulates female pregnancy cycles. eLife 8, e44392 (2019)

Bekpen, C.; Xie, C.; Nebel, A.; Tautz, D.: Involvement of SPATA31 copy number variable genes in human lifespan. Aging 10 (4), pp. 674 - 688 (2018)

Bekpen, C.; Xie, C.; Tautz, D.: Dealing with the adaptive immune system during de novo evolution of genes from intergenic sequences. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18, 121 (2018)

Bekpen, C.; Künzel, S.; Xie, C.; Eaaswarkhanth, M.; Lin, Y.-L.; Gokcumen, O.; Akdis, C. A.; Tautz, D.: Segmental duplications and evolutionary acquisition of UV damage response in the SPATA31 gene family of primates and humans. BMC Genomics 18, 222 (2017)

Xie, C.; Künzel, S.; Tautz, D.: Fast evolutionary turnover and overlapping variances of sex-biased gene expression patterns defy a simple binary sex-classification of somatic tissues. (2025)

Xie, C.; Künzel, S.; Tautz, D.: Fast evolutionary turnover and overlapping variances of sex-biased gene expression patterns defy a simple binary classification of sexes. eLife, Reviewed Preprint, v2, Revised by authors (2025)

Xie, C.; Bekpen, C.; Künzel, S.; Keshavarz, M.; Krebs-Wheaton, R.; Skrabar, N.; Ullrich, K. K.; Tautz, D.: Studying the dawn of de novo gene emergence in mice reveals fast integration of new genes into functional networks. (2019)