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 ...

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

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 ...

Most people see fruit flies as a nuisance. A scientist at Washington State University Vancouver sees them as the key to understanding evolution.

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

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 ...

For example, we can modify the sequence of a vinegar fly gene so that the protein it encodes becomes fluorescent. We can even take genes from other organisms and study their effects in fruit flies.

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 ...

Case Western Reserve researchers have pinpointed a gene and brain circuitry responsible for the fruit-fly version of speed dating. In a study featured in PLOS Biology, a team led by Rui Sutton De ...

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 ...

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 ...

Outwardly, fruit flies and humans have little in common. It is all the more astonishing that roughly 60 percent of the fly's genes can also be found in humans in a similar form. Many insights gained ...