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 the new study, the researchers also explored how Drosophila's transposon repression system, the PIWI-piRNA pathway, silences copia. In the fruitfly testes, anti-sense piRNAs targeting copia ...

Genetic studies in model organisms, including Drosophila, have a rich history of fundamental insights in neuroscience, including the identification and functional dissection of genes important in ...