The Scientist : to the rescue [5/7/2002]

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020705-02

5 July 2002

Wolbachia pipientis is a widespread parasite of arthropods that manipulates the reproductive biology of its hosts in order to foster its own transmission via the egg cytoplasm. In 4 July Nature, Diana Starr and Thomas Cline at the University of California, Berkeley, US, show that the interaction between Wolbachia and a specific host regulator protein can rescue Drosophila oogenesis defects (Nature 2002, 418:76-79).

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