While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, ...

Single-Gene Test Crosses Recall that in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the ebony-body allele (e) is recessive to the normal yellow-body allele (E). Say you are given a male fly with a ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute-led research has produced a complete connectome of the Drosophila visual system, enabling systematic investigations into how visual information is processed and relayed ...

Genetic studies in model organisms, including Drosophila, have a rich history of fundamental insights in neuroscience, including the identification and functional dissection of genes important in ...

8 Beach and Maselko used the fly Drosophila melanogaster to test the proof of concept of the method they dubbed toxic male technique (TMT). They genetically engineered male flies to produce the ...

Researchers have revealed that the presence of Nora virus in fruit flies can increase their sensitivity to bacterial infection and could limit their lifespan.

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has long been used to study associative learning and memory. The mushroom body in the fly brain plays essential roles in both memory and sleep regulation.

This study presents a valuable open-source and cost-effective method for automating the quantification of male aggression and courtship in Drosophila melanogaster. The work as presented provides solid ...

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 fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster has enabled significant ... with respect to fly neurodegeneration for three reasons: as a test of mobility, it can reflect the ataxia that is common in human ...