varies from species to species (numbers at right), it is not always proportional to genome size (blue bars, in millions of base pairs). Note how many genes a fruit fly can squeeze out of its ...

The house fly genome, published today (October 13) in Genome Biology, reveals expanded repertoires of genes involved in pathogen responses, detoxification, and chemosensing compared with the ...

Their appeal lies in their simplicity: A small species with a well-studied genome that is highly fertile, inexpensive, and easy to observe over multiple generations. In many ways, fruit flies have ...

The fruit fly also remains a powerhouse for biological discovery. Its genome was sequenced in the 1990s. This was done in part as a trial run for assembly of the human genome, but also to allow ...

Fruit flies are already known to evolve ... such as starvation tolerance and egg size, evolved rapidly in parallel, leading the researchers to conclude that the regions of the genome under the ...

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

Fruit flies have provided scientists with ... the effect sexual selection has on the genome to drive changes in genitalia shape and size. Sexual selection has been shown to drive evolutionary ...

A simple comparison of the general features of genomes such as genome size, number of genes ... has a smaller genome than that of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (157 million base pairs ...

A comparison of the genome of humans and flies shows that Thanks to this high degree of genetic similarity, scientists can use flies to examine which function genes possess that may lead to diseases ...

First, Lear's team helped to create tagged transgenic strains for more than 90% of known transcription factors in the fruit fly genome; collaborators at Yale generated tagged transgenic strains ...