Publications & Preprints

2023

Hopkins, B.R., Barmina, O., & Kopp, A. (2023) A single-cell atlas of the sexually dimorphic Drosophila foreleg and its sensory organs during development. PLOS Biology 21 (6), e3002148. [PDF]
Hopkins, B.R., Angus-Henry, A., Kim, B.Y., Carlisle, J.A., Thompson, A., & Kopp, A. (2023) Decoupled evolution of the Sex Peptide gene family and Sex Peptide Receptor in Drosophilidae. biorxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.29.547128. [PDF]

Hopkins, B.R. & Perry, J.C. (2022), The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution. Biological Reviews 97 (4), 1426-1448. [PDF]

Hopkins, B.R. & Kopp, A. (2021) Evolution of sexual development and sexual dimorphism in insects. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 69, 129–139. [PDF]
Perry, J.C. & Hopkins, B.R. (2021) Escaping the choosiness trap. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, 1066–1067. [PDF]
Wainwright, S.M., Hopkins, B.R., Mendes, C.C., Sekar, A., Kroeger, B., Hellberg, J.E.E.U., Fan, S.J., Pavey, A., Marie, P.P., Leiblich, A., Sepil, I., Charles, P.D., Thézénas, M.L., Fischer, R., Kessler, B.M., et al. (2021) Drosophila Sex Peptide controls the assembly of lipid microcarriers in seminal fluid. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, e2019622118. [PDF]

Sepil, I., Hopkins, B.R., Dean, R., Bath, E., Friedman, S., Swanson, B., Ostridge, H.J., Harper, L., Buehner, N.A., Wolfner, M.F., Konietzny, R., Thézénas, M.L., Sandham, E., Charles, P.D., Fischer, R., et al. (2020) Male reproductive aging arises via multifaceted mating-dependent sperm and seminal proteome declines, but is postponable in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117, 17094–17103. [PDF]
Hopkins, B.R., Sepil, I. & Wigby, S. (2020) Structural variation in Drosophila melanogaster spermathecal ducts and its association with sperm competition dynamics. Royal Society Open Science 7, 200130. [PDF]

Hopkins, B.R., Sepil, I., Thézénas, M.L., Craig, J.F., Miller, T., Charles, P.D., Fischer, R., Kessler, B.M., Bretman, A., Pizzari, T. & Wigby, S. (2019) Divergent allocation of sperm and the seminal proteome along a competition gradient in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116, 17925–17933. [PDF]
Hopkins, B.R., Sepil, I., Bonham, S., Miller, T., Charles, P.D., Fischer, R., Kessler, B.M., Wilson, C. & Wigby, S. (2019) BMP signaling inhibition in Drosophila secondary cells remodels the seminal proteome and self and rival ejaculate functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116, 24719–24728. [PDF]
Sepil, I., Hopkins, B.R., Dean, R., Thézénas, M.-L., Charles, P.D., Konietzny, R., Fischer, R., Kessler, B.M. & Wigby, S. (2019) Quantitative proteomics identification of seminal fluid proteins in male Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 18, S46–S58. [PDF]

Hopkins, B.R., Avila, F.W. & Wolfner, M.F. (2018) Insect male reproductive glands and their products. In Encyclopedia of Reproduction pp. 137–144. Elsevier. [PDF]
Hopkins, B.R., Sepil, I. & Wigby, S. (2017) Seminal fluid. Current Biology 27, R404–R405. [PDF]
Reed, K.R., Korobko, I. V., Ninkina, N., Korobko, E. V., Hopkins, B.R., Platt, J.L., Buchman, V. & Clarke, A.R. (2015) Hunk/Mak-v is a negative regulator of intestinal cell proliferation. BMC Cancer 15, 1–9. [PDF]