In a new JNeurosci paper, Adrian Rothenfluh and colleagues from the University of Utah developed a fruit fly model of cocaine ...

How do insects perceive mechanical stress? This is a question of interest in many different fields, including comparative ...

For the first time, researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies that can become addicted to cocaine. The new ...

Rocha had switched to using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. After working with Rocha, Abolaji understood the fruit fly’s power. “The fly has a high degree of advantages compared with ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to induce virgin birth in an animal that usually reproduces sexually: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Once induced in this fruit fly, this ...

the fruit or vinegar fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Science’s partnership with flies started during the early 1900s when biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University in New York decided ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have discovered that the fruit fly Drosophila busckii has developed a tolerance to the toxic sulfur compound dimethyldisulfide ...

Before male Drosophila flies (fruit flies) can become fathers, they must attract mates, and that requires them to produce ...

Drosophila is one of the most well-studied model ... "There are now several types of analysis software available for classifying fruit fly social behaviors, but most use rigid rules-based ...

Last year, the researchers and their colleagues in Hungary used CRISPR genome editing to knock out the gene responsible for the defense in one widespread fly species, Drosophila ananassae ...

A new UC Davis study reveals previously unknown cell types in the female reproductive tract of Drosophila fruit flies. The knowledge could help in studies of fertility in general, and in managing ...

The scientific name for the fruit fly is Drosophila melanogaster. The word “drosophila” means lover of dew. The species needs access to plenty of water in order to survive. What do fruit ...