In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or ...

From oceans found on distant planets to a detailed map of a fly’s brain, these findings deepened our understanding of the world.

Additionally, investigating the ecological significance of the lesser-studied pharyngeal neurons in Drosophila, which are key to the fly’s perception of carboxylic acid taste, presents a valuable ...

Feeding assays were performed using carboxylic acids with varying pH levels, from acidic to neutral, to examine the effect of pH on the behavioral characteristics of control flies and candidate IR ...

Fruit flies show more variation in sperm length ... variation in sperm and SR length in the lab model fly Drosophila melanogaster. Surprisingly, only about 19% of the genes determining variation ...

Onboard the Chinese Tiangong space station, flies play a key role in studying the effects of weightlessness and the space ...

A team of scientists has created the first complete map of the circadian clock in the brain of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), uncovering mechanisms that regulate daily biological rhythms.

Earlier work undertaken by her research group had already demonstrated that such a corrective "gain control" mechanism exists in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, where it acts directly ...

Brian P. Lazzaro from Cornell University discusses his research on the factors influencing immune response and infection ...

Fruit flies, or Drosophila melanogaster, are ideal models for this research. Their genome is 60% similar to that of humans, and their short life cycle allows scientists to quickly observe the effects ...

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