In March 2023, while examining fruit flies for parasitic worms in a backyard, biologist Logan Moore and his team found a ...

Figure 1. The Drosophila Larval musculature and Representative body muscles — A) Lateral view of a Drosophila 3rd instar larva that carries a muscle specific red fluorescent transgene that highlights ...

Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Ashburn, Virginia, USA / Spatially isotropic whole-animal functional imaging of a behaving Drosophila larva labeled with a calcium ...

However, some organisms (including drosophila larvae) that have an ECS with a high viscosity in the outermost layer remained active in the microscope (larvae A, B and C) without suffering neither ...

After three moults, the larva seeks a spot where it can be undisturbed and pupates ... Although they are termed "fruit flies", Drosophila does not feed on vegetable elements but on the yeast cells ...

The possibility that ageing may be a consequence of the failure of cells to maintain accurate protein synthesis has prompted experiments in which the larvae of Drosophila melanogaster are treated ...