Researchers identify a C. elegans gene that leads the organelles to self-destruct in sperm following fertilization of an egg. The research “comes closest to elucidating a key development process that ...

Raised at 25 degrees Celsius—a sweltering temperature for C. elegans—the worms have resorted to an unusual coping mechanism: early sex. Hermaphrodites typically create offspring through ...

Elimination of Paternal mitochondria through the lysosomal degradation pathway in C. elegans. Cell Research 21 ... G mediates breakdown of paternal mitochondria following fertilization. Science 353, ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz's Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has yielded a new discovery: The proper transfer of genetic materials depends on ...