Scientists alter the genomes of female fruit flies, allowing them to reproduce without any contribution from a male go.nature.com/458kBr2

Congratulations to first author, Alexis L Sperling, on their recently published paper. For the first time, scientists have managed to induce virgin birth in fruit flies with the ability to pass this on through the generations 🪰 🔗 shar.es/afMW9e

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There is a great primer by Jonathon Thomalla and Mariana Wolfner Lab for my, Daniel Klaus Fabian, Erik Garrison, and GloverLab's work on #Drosophila #parthenogenesis (doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…) out in the last issue of Current Biology! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

For an excellent start to the week, why not delve into this excellent new preprint by Alexis L Sperling Sebastian Eves-van den Akker at Crop Science Centre ? 🪱 'Whole mount multiplexed visualization of DNA, mRNA, and protein in plant-parasitic nematodes' biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wrap your eyeballs around this! New in situ protocol by Alexis L Sperling Multiple mRNA, in the same animal, sub-cellular resolution 🥲. Here is DG + SvG effector at the same time. Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Department of Plant Sciences Crop Science Centre

Interested in figuring out if an animal is secretly capable of facultative parthenogenesis? GloverLab and I made our detailed method available It works in Drosophila and is worth a try in other animals!

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I have a new parthenogenesis paper with GloverLab! We found that aneuploidy arises during development in natural Drosophila parthenogens and our genetically induced parthenogens Heredity doi.org/10.1038/s41437…

!!!New paper alert with Alexis L Sperling !!! Plant Methods Very nice new in situ protocol for plant-parasitic nematodes - un-ambiguous localisation of multiple transcripts within the same parasite. plantmethods.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

There can’t be a better time to present our recent review/perspective on Gastruloids — a minimalistic model to study complex developmental metabolism | Emerging Topics in Life Sciences | Portland Press portlandpress.com/emergtoplifesc…

We have our very detailed protocol out that walks through the process of going from an intact fly to an annotated genome assembly. Daniel Klaus Fabian, Erik Garrison, and GloverLab

Excited to share my first author postdoc paper in Developmental Cell cell.com/developmental-…

New paper! Dosage compensation in male reproductive tissues is present only in the early nymphal stages. This is likely due to the establishment of meiotic sex chromosome inactivation during development. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

New paper! Our stick insects have weird chromosome segregation. The major centromere protein, CenH3, binds to the autosomes in a monocentric pattern, but in a holocentric pattern on the X. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

1/9 Glad to share the latest work from VaSAD_lab. A collaborative effort to study the role of the electron transport chain in microglia during development. nature.com/articles/s4225… rdcu.be/dONoN Nature Metabolism IBiS Universidad de Sevilla CSIC #Microglia #Mitochondria

Excited to share our new study revealing the intricate dynamics of pregnancy & postpartum physiology! We analyzed 40M lab tests from 300K pregnancies and 160K women (cross-sectional), we mapped week-by-week changes starting from preconception to months-long postpartum recovery.

Expansion of chromosome F heterochromatin in parthenogenetic Drosophila mercatorum biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio

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