Would love to be added as well please!

10/10 Very happy to have this paper out and for the wonderful work done with Peter and our students Poppy and Chris!

9/10 While we can’t fully explain this effect, this downregulation of Pho, with potential downstream effects on Polycomb targets, may be something to keep in mind when using Sb as a marker in future.

8/10 In following up on this unexpected result, we found that mutation of Sb has an effect on expression of Pho, a recruiter of the PRC2 complex responsible for depositing H3K27me3.

7/10 As controls for our sRNA pathway mutants we used some well-known marker mutations on the same chromosome. One of these, mutation in the gene Stubble (Sb) which is well-known to Drosophila enthusiasts, had a clear effect on eye colour, making it more red.

6/10 Next, we tested an array of mutants in sRNA pathways. Again, we found no effect of the mutations on eye colour, arguing against a role for sRNAs in eye colour. However, a surprising result involving one of our controls jumped out at us…