Studies in multiple organisms have shown that aging is accompanied by several molecular
phenotypes that include dysregulation of chromatin. Since chromatin regulates DNA-based …

Male–male social interactions exert a substantial impact on the transcriptional regulation of
genes associated with aggression and mating behavior in male Drosophila melanogaster …

Advanced age is one of the leading risk factors for vision loss and eye disease.
Photoreceptors are the primary sensory neurons of the eye. The extended photoreceptor cell …

Investigating the impact of disease-causing mutations, their affected pathways, and/or
potential therapeutic strategies using disease modeling often requires the generation of …

Drosophila Toll-9 is most closely related to mammalian Toll-like receptors; however,
physiological functions of Toll-9 remain elusive. We examined the roles of Toll-9 in fly brains …

Drosophila rhabdomeric terminal photoreceptor differentiation is an extended process taking
several days to complete. Following ommatidial patterning by the morphogenetic furrow …

Background: An animal's ability to discriminate between differing wavelengths of light (ie,
color vision) is mediated, in part, by a subset of photoreceptor cells that express opsins with …

Rearing temperature is correlated with the timing and speed of development in a wide range
of poikiloterm animals that do not regulate their body temperature. However, exceptions …

FoxP1 and Mef2C are two genes important for mouse striatal development, the brain region
that is most vulnerable the effects of the mutated protein responsible for Huntington's …