As males age, their reproductive success typically declines. A study on fruit flies, led by University of Oxford researchers, ...

Male insects carrying venom proteins transferred these to disease-spreading females, reducing their lifespan and providing a ...

Fruit flies normally have brilliant, red-colored eyes, although occasionally, male flies with white eyes would appear in Morgan's laboratory (Figure 5). Intrigued by these white-eyed males ...

A study on fruit flies completed by researchers with Macquarie University suggests that genetic modification of male mosquitoes could help minimise the spread of illnesses linked with the insects.

The study found that tumors in female fruit flies grew 2.5 times larger than tumors in male fruit flies over the same time period. Fruit flies are an often used biological research model due to ...

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 ...