A new study led by researchers at Penn State has uncovered how a widespread bacteria called Wolbachia and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm ...

In my lab, we study the simplified, easily accessible stem cell system of the Drosophila fruit fly testis to better understand niche-stem cell and stem cell-stem cell interactions. We have identified ...

As a core member of the modENCODE project, we were deeply involved in reannotating the transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster ... and/or shorter 3’ UTRs in the testis. These tissue-specific ...