According to Gabriella Sterne, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics ... ve gathered in the connectome, or the map of the fruit fly’s brain. In the short term the hope is to ...

A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature. Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million connections inside ...

Humble as fruit flies may seem ... Seung said the map will also help scientists delve into the questions of how genes are related to brain function and how they influence the wiring of the ...

Collecting a stack of laboratory data, Sturtevant went home and spent most of the night drawing the first chromosomal linkage map for the genes located on the X chromosome of fruit flies (Weiner ...

Scientists found that fruit fly embryos can develop through multiple genetic paths, not just one. This challenges traditional ideas.

How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes.

Researchers have discovered neurons in the fly larva mouth that allow the taste of food texture. The study found that the fly peripheral taste organ has neurons with texture-tasting mechanoreceptors ...

Only three molecular changes are needed for fruit flies to digest milkweed toxins Gene-edited fruit flies have gained some of monarch butterflies’ superpowers — specifically, the ability to ...

As an example, consider the relationship between fruit fly body color and wing length. Here, the gene for wing length is represented by two alleles, V and v; the V allele codes for long wings ...