William D Gilliland

This study shows that the size of germline intercellular bridges in fruit fly egg chambers scales based on lineage, with earlier-born bridges growing more slowly.

The paper screens for genes affecting Drosophila female meiosis by testing RNAi constructs in germline-specific promoters to identify defects in chromosome congression and Mps1-GFP sequestration.

The paper shows how a transposon insertion can trigger germline gene silencing via piRNA biogenesis and how a second insertion can reverse this silencing by altering the same process.