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Fat to the rescue?

November 2, 2018

By Sabrina Lazar, Cell Biology  ‘20 Author’s note: After attending an interesting meeting on cytoskeleton dynamics in the weekly Joint Seminars in Molecular Biology series, I wanted to learn more about the subject and found Anna Franz and her colleagues’ recent paper about fat cells in Drosophila, a model organism I work with and is […]

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Fecundity Decrease in Drosophila simulans in the absence of Wolbachia

April 9, 2014 / Leave a comment

By: Jack Taylor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ’15 Sponsor: Michael Turelli, Ph.D. Ecology and Evolution Many species of arthropods host Wolbachia, maternally transmitted bacteria that often influence host reproduction. This manipulation of host reproduction has contributed to Wolbachia becoming a normally-present infection of many Drosophila simulans. The Y36 isofemale line, a population of Drosophila simulans […]

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“Drosophila Are Cute”

March 12, 2014

Work by Don Hoang, 4th year Microbiology major at UCD. Pieces were featured on a scientific poster on Drosophila/Yeast interactions in 2014.

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