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BBSO and JSA held an event to discuss the similarities between their two cultures. 

How the fly selects its reproductive male Researchers from UNIGE have discovered a very small protein in Drosophila that plays a key role in how females select the semen that will fertilize its eggs when it mates with several males. Drosophila accessory glands consisting of two cell types (green “secondary cells” surrounded by red nuclei of the “main cells”). © Robert Maeda Even a well-characterized genome, such as that of the Drosophila the so-called fruit fly, still holds surprise...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Drosophila accessory glands consisting of two cell types (green "secondary cells " surrounded by red nuclei of the "main cells "). view more  Credit: © Robert Maeda Even a well-characterized genome, such as that of the Drosophila the so-called fruit fly, still holds surprises. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, in collaboration with Cornell University (USA) and the University of Groningen (Netherlands), has discovered an RNA coding for a micro...