Most genes are ancient and shared across species. But a small subset of genes are relative newcomers, spontaneously emerging from stretches of DNA that once encoded nothing at all.

Just as firefly season lights up Pennsylvania fields, a new study led by Bucknell researchers is shining a light on an ...

Wheatgrass flavonoids can powerfully combat oxidative stress and extend fruit fly lifespans. Scientists studying 228 ...

BEIJING -- Researchers have constructed a comprehensive 3D spatiotemporal multi-omics atlas of single cells throughout the ...

While most creatures, including the common fruit fly found buzzing around your kitchen, desperately avoid high heat, their desert-dwelling cousins have learned to do the opposite. These hardy flies ...

Comprehensive fruit fly behavior dataset maps genetic diversity to decode animal behavioral patterns by Chiba University Editors' notes ...

A breakthrough came in the mid-1980s, when Artavanis-Tsakonas and colleagues figured out how to clone the Notch gene location in fruit flies. This gave scientists the ability to explore the molecular ...

Figure 1 | A map of neuronal cells and their connections in the visual system of the male fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

The widespread use of fruit flies in research is also partially due to their genetic similarities to humans. About 60% of fruit flies’ genes can be found in humans in a similar form, according to ...