Fractionating the Fruit Fly A simple technique reveals that genes controlling eye color in flies also control the production of a whole family of unusual substances. The study has importance for ...

For decades the Medfly has posed a threat to farmers, and politicians, but one expert thinks it may be here to stay.

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting the behaviors of over 30,000 fruit flies across ... right from eye color to susceptibility to certain ...

Fruit flies normally have brilliant ... they began to suspect that white eye color was inherited along with the sex of the fly. This observation confirmed the chromosome theory proposed by ...

Scientists have long turned to simpler organisms to help answer these questions, with the humble fruit fly emerging as an ideal candidate. These tiny insects share many genes with humans that are ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that tiny changes in the timing of the expression of a single gene can ...