M. Polak

Post-proline cleaving enzymes also show specificity to reduced cysteine.

The paper shows that post-proline cleaving enzymes also specifically cleave after reduced cysteine, revealing previously undetected activity due to alkylation blocking.

Shifted levels of sleep and activity under darkness as mechanisms underlying ectoparasite resistance

This study shows that mite-resistant Drosophila melanogaster lines exhibit reduced sleep, increased activity, and metabolic gene expression, but decreased starvation resistance under darkness.

Heritability and pre-adult survivorship costs of ectoparasite resistance in the naturally occurring Drosophila-Gamasodes mite system

This study shows that ectoparasite resistance in Drosophila can be selectively improved, but comes with a cost in pre-adult survivorship under stress.

Refutation of traumatic insemination in the Drosophila bipectinata species complex: Hypothesis fails critical tests

The paper refutes the claim that traumatic insemination occurs in the Drosophila bipectinata species complex by showing sperm transfer occurs through the vaginal opening, not via puncture wounds.