A combination of methods, including a new method for tagging genes, demonstrates that the chemosensory co-receptors of Drosophila melanogaster (Orco, IR8a, IR25a, IR76b) are expressed widely and ...

During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...

By doing so, we constructed the cytogenetic map of S. spontaneum based on the 10 BAC probes. Moreover, the sequence of BAC-2 shared high similarity (97%) to a fragment on chromosome 3 of sorghum.

To confirm the existence of an ancestral amniote super-sex chromosome and understand the mechanisms of amniote sex chromosome evolution, chromosome maps of two snake species [Russell’s viper: Daboia ...