Male orchid bee Euglossa dilemma drinking nectar. Whole genome sequencing efforts by Brand et al. published in G3 revealed that E. dilemma has one of the largest genomes known for insects.

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How Drosophila can help health science labs do more with less in Brazil

In Brazil, the FlyPower group has been promoting and advocating for biomedical Drosophila research in diverse ways, and shown that fly culture can be up to seven times cheaper than mammalian cell culture.

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Near-perfect genome editing in a deadly fungus

C. neoformans researchers introduce a toolkit that simplifies CRISPR editing—with HDR rates rarely seen in fungal systems.

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by Caitlan Rossi

A first of its kind C. elegans study uncovers the diversity and evolution of gene regulation-image
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A first of its kind C. elegans study uncovers the diversity and evolution of gene regulation

A new paper in GENETICS shows how multiple strains of C. elegans developed their own unique methods for controlling gene activity.

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by Jenny Montooth

Close-up view of a wild-type Junonia coenia wing eyespot pattern. Zhang et al. used CRISPR mutagenesis to interfere with the genetic machinery necessary for making melanin pigments in the colored scales of the butterfly wing. See Zhang et al.

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