Sep 22 2020 – CMC students co-author Current Biology paper on a male-killing bacterium

It’s not every day that college undergraduates author an article published in a leading science journal. But that’s just what happened for CMC seniors Becky Cheng ’17 and Nitin Kuppanda ’17 last spring. They did the heavy lifting on a Current Biology paper about a bacterium that attacks and kills only males of a certain fruit fly species.

The study with the rather formidable title of “Male-Killing Spiroplasma Alters Behavior of the Dosage Compensation Complex during Drosophila melanogaster Embryogenesis” could help scientists combat insects that are pests to humans, including insects that carry disease-causing agents like Zika virus-carrying mosquitoes.

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