The Scientist : Flies find sterility dispensable [2/7/2004]

Email: David Secko - dmsecko@interchange.ubc.ca
News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040702-01

2 July 2004

While some of the genes potentially involved in maintaining reproductive isolation have been recently identified, the normal functions of these genes—outside of reproductive isolation—have remained unclear. A study in the July 2 Sciencereports an analysis of one such gene, the hybrid sterility gene Odysseus in Drosophila, revealing that it weakly affects sperm production and is nonessential, even though it strongly effects hybrid sterility.

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