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 ...

This important study shows that the Nora virus, a natural Drosophila pathogen that also persistently infects many laboratory fly stocks, infects intestinal stem cells (ISCs), leading to a shorter life ...

The Drosophila imaginal wing disc is a cluster of tissue cells in fly larvae that are a precursor to the wing. The cells comprise different identities reflecting the adult structures they ultimately ...

Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...

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 ...

The inspection - by Cardiff Council's Shared Regulatory Service on September 9, 2023 - found evidence of multiple food hygiene offences including: Live maggot larvae in damaged kitchen floors ...

Under homeostatic conditions, haematopoiesis in Drosophila larvae occurs in the lymph gland and sessile haemocyte clusters to produce two functionally and morphologically different 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 ...