Drosophilosopher🔬💊

For the love of #Drosophila, though lots of uncertainty. I have created a google sheet for Molecular probes in #Drosophila for the community. Add yours via this link #gid=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… Please RT. Suggestions welcome @FlyBaseDotOrg @interactivefly @Poppi62 @peiferlabunc

Voichek, M., Bernhard, A., Novatchkova, M., Handler, D., Moseneder, P., Rafanel, B., Duchek, P., Senti, K. A., Brennecke, J. (2025). Direct cell-to-cell transmission of retrotransposons bioRxiv, biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Taira, Y., Zhu, L. and Fukunaga, R. (2025). RNA-binding protein Miso/CG44249 is crucial for minor splicing during oogenesis in Drosophila Rna, 31(6):822-835 rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/31/6/8…

Preussner, M., Bischoff, M., Onel, S. F. (2025). mir-276a Is Required for Muscle Development in Drosophila and Regulates the FGF Receptor Heartless During the Migration of Nascent Myotubes in the Testis. Cells, 14(5) mdpi.com/2073-4409/14/5…

Huang, Y., Gao, Z. Y., Ly, K., Lin, L., Lambooij, J. P., King, E. G., Janssen, A., Wei, K. H., Lee, Y. C. G. (2025). Polymorphic transposable elements contribute to variation in recombination landscapes Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 122(12):e2427312122 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Rommelaere, S., Schupfer, F., Armand, F., Hamelin, R., Lemaitre, B. (2025). An updated proteomic analysis of Drosophila haemolymph after bacterial infection. Fly (Austin), 19(1):2485685 tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/19…

Duan, R., Hu, B., Ding, E., Zhang, S., Wu, M., Jin, Y., Ali, U., Saeed, M. A. R., Raza, B., Usama, M., Batool, S. S., Cai, Q., Ji, S. (2025). Cul2 Is Essential for the Drosophila IMD Signaling-Mediated Antimicrobial Immune Defense. Int J Mol Sci, 26(6) mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/6…

Zhang, C., Zhou, C., He, L., Yang, H., Ding, B., Smagghe, G., Yang, M. (2025). Identification and characterization of Spatzle in Myzus persicae and its role during microbial infection. Insect Sci, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Wu, C., Chen, Y., Zheng, C., Huang, X., Xie, Y., Lin, L., Zhang, X., Xie, L. (2025). The Role of AaPGRP-LB in the Immune Response of Aedes albopictus Against Bacteria Infection. Int J Mol Sci, 26(5) mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/5…

Kachaev, Z. M., Ghassah, M., Musabirov, A. A., ..., Chmykhalo, V. K., Shidlovskii, Y. V. (2025). The Enhanced activation of innate immunity in Drosophila S2 cells by Micrococcus luteus VKM Ac-2230 is mediated by Relish, J Invertebr Pathol, 211:108315 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Qush, A., Yassine, H. M., Zeidan, A., Kamareddine, L. (2025). Diet-induced mechanical stress promotes immune and metabolic alterations in the Drosophila melanogaster digestive tract J Invertebr Pathol, 211:108348 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Hu, L., Wainman, A., Andreeva, A., ...., Raff, J. W., van Breugel, M., Feng, Z. (2025). The conserved Spd-2/CEP192 domain adopts a unique protein fold to promote centrosome scaffold assembly Sci Adv 21;11(12):eadr5744. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Jin, Z., Meng, Z., Liu, Y., Li, C., Zhang, X., Yin, Y., Gao, G., Dou, K., Huang, Y. (2025). Structural basis of thymidine-rich DNA recognition by Drosophila P75 PWWP domain Commun Biol, 8(1):445 nature.com/articles/s4200…

Parada, C., Prieto, D. (2025). Survival, Movement, and Lifespan: Decoding the Roles of Patched-Related in Drosophila melanogaster. Arch Insect Biochem Physiol, 118(3):e70048 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

Yan, Y., Zhao, J., Schwirz, J., Borghesi, C., Liu, C., Liu, B., Qian, W., Wan, F., Schetelig, M. F. (2025). The transformer gene controls sexual development in Drosophila suzukii. Insect Sci, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Ito, R., Ojima, H., ...., Sattelle, D. B., Matsuda, K. (2025). Binding site loops D and G make a stronger contribution than loop C to the actions of neonicotinoids on the NACHO-assisted, Drosophila nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Pestic Biochem Physiol, sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Jeong, H., Son, S., Lee, G., Park, J. H., Yoo, S. (2025). Biogenesis of circular RNAs in vitro and in vivo from the Drosophila Nk2.1/scarecrow gene. G3 (Bethesda), 15(5) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…

🚨Publication alert🚨 My first-author PhD paper is out today in Nature Genetics nature.com/articles/s4158… Tumors aren’t one entity — they’re made of coexisting cell states with distinct vulnerabilities. We show that targeting complementary states simultaneously in DMG is key.

Now online! p53 safeguards chemical reprogramming of human somatic cells toward pluripotency dlvr.it/TS8mhw

Zhou Y,  Wang X, Tan X, Nara S, Huang YC, Tamori Y,  Deng WM. 2026, Polyploidy Reprograms Epithelial Cells for Motility and Phagocytosis via Stress Signaling. J Cell Biol. doi.org/10.1083/jcb.20…

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