Stefanie Williams

This study shows that the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis uses a synaptonemal complex with divergent and sex-specific meiotic functions, challenging assumptions about SC mechanistic homology.

The paper creates a hypomorphic allele of the Drosophila melanogaster corolla gene by replacing it with its D. mauritiana ortholog, revealing defects in SC maintenance and crossover distribution while avoiding severe phenotypes.

This paper presents a SNP-based crossover map for Drosophila mauritiana, showing reduced centromere suppression of crossing over compared to D. melanogaster.