While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

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 ...

In March 2023, while examining fruit flies for parasitic worms in a backyard, biologist Logan Moore and his team found a spiky-tailed wasp larva growing inside the abdomen of a live Drosophila ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2-230pm Dr Terrence Trinca(Dr Helen Weaver and Prof Paul Martin lab, University ofBristol) "Using Drosophila to study and screen ... in the timing of sensitive periods duringDrosophila larval neuronal ...

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 ...