Figure 1: Asymmetric division of neuroblasts and male germline stem cells (mGSC) in Drosophila melanogaster. Genome instability, which can be recognized as cytologically abnormal karyotypes ...

More recently, we have developed and validated a strategy that leverages Drosophila genetics to enhance the power of human genetic studies (Shulman et al. 2011). Despite the promise of genome-wide ...

The sequencing group at Celera Genomics Corporation has cooperated with the European, Canadian and American genome projects to demonstrate that a genomic sequence as large as that of Drosophila ...

Many insights gained from researching with Drosophila therefore provide important indications of how a process might unfold in mammals or humans. Analyzing the genome of a fly is easier than of a ...

Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...

Recent work by Chinese scientists has revealed a novel molecular mechanism of how a totipotent chromatin is established and an orderly zygotic genome activation is controlled in early Drosophila ...

Although many retrotransposons are found in the Drosophila genome, copia is by far the most frequently expressed one. Previous research has shown that copia predominantly targets the male germ line.