Collaborative Study on Horizontal Gene Transfer in Drosophila with UC Berkeley PhD Candidate Rebecca Tarnopol

PhD candidate Rebecca Tarnopol has a new preprint in bioRxiv detailing much of her dissertation work. She and collaborators at UC Berkeley, Stanford and the HUN-REN Biological Research Centre in Szeged, Hungary used gene editing to retrace the horizontal transfer of a bacterial gene that now encodes an anti-parasitoid toxin in Drosophila. More details in this twitter/X thread.