Diethard Tautz

TL;DR: The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) process is used to show that several randomly chosen simple sequence loci with different nucleotide composition and from different species show extensive length polymorphisms.

TL;DR: A non-radioactive in situ hybridization technique for the localization of RNA in whole mount Drosophila embryos and revealed translational control of the maternally derived hb mRNA, which was difficult to detect by conventional techniques.

TL;DR: Recent technological and intellectual advances that have changed thinking about five questions about how have bacteria facilitated the origin and evolution of animals; how do animals and bacteria affect each other’s genomes; how does normal animal development depend on bacterial partners; and how is homeostasis maintained between animals and their symbionts are highlighted.

TL;DR: Many, probably even all possible types of simple sequence are repetitive components of eukaryotic genomes and it is proposed that they arise by common mechanisms namely slippage replication and unequal crossover and that they might have no general function with regards to gene expression.

TL;DR: Tribolium castaneum is a member of the most species-rich eukaryotic order, a powerful model organism for the study of generalized insect development, and an important pest of stored agricultural products.