Kari F. Lenhart

The paper identifies apoptosis as a conserved mechanism maintaining worker sterility in Polistes wasps by comparing ovarian structure and cell death rates with Drosophila.

The paper identifies a non-autonomous role for somatic cells in maintaining germline incomplete cytokinesis through FGF signaling in Drosophila.

This study shows that loss of chinmo in Drosophila testis causes somatic cells to adopt female-specific behaviors and influence germline sex identity, leading to early oocyte specification.

The paper investigates how the Drosophila Posterior Signaling Center (PSC) niche forms through collective cell migration guided by Slit-Robo signaling and interactions with neighboring tissues.

The paper shows that mating in Drosophila males increases ecdysone signaling, disrupting germline stem cell cytokinesis and causing stem cell loss over time.