Haiwang Yang

The paper shows that X and 4th chromosomes are inactivated while Y chromosomes are active in Drosophila primary spermatocytes using single-cell RNA-Seq.

The paper reannotates eight Drosophila genomes using a transcriptome assembly approach trained on Drosophila melanogaster, adding tens of thousands of new gene models and orthologs.

This study identifies the small ovary (sov) gene in Drosophila, which encodes a zinc-finger protein required for ovarian differentiation by repressing cell signaling and transposons.