This team's connectome of a baby fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster larva, is the most comprehensive as well as the most expansive map of an entire insect brain ever completed. It includes 3,016 ...

This team's connectome of a baby fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster larva, is the most complete as well as the most expansive map of an entire insect brain ever completed.

Fruit flies can be a nuisance at this time of year, as they love to feast on fruit left out in bowls on our kitchen counters, ...

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Scientists have just induced the first virgin birth. A recent paper detailed how researchers were able to find a genetic trigger in fruit flies for virgin birth, also known as parthenogenesis ...

Scientists have found 50 million reasons to study the brain of a fruit fly. That's how many connections they discovered in the first complete map— known as a connectome—of an adult insect's brain.

EXPLAINER Fly-ing solo: scientists discover genetic on-switch for "virgin birth" in fruit flies For the first time, scientists turn on asexual reproduction in animals By Nicole Karlis Senior Writer ...

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (left) and the parasitic wasp Syntretus perlmani (right). CREDIT: Matt Ballinger. This new species was also discovered hiding “in plain sight.” ...

This team's connectome of a baby fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster larva, is the most complete as well as the most expansive map of an entire insect brain ever completed. It includes 3,016 neurons ...

(CN) — In a major breakthrough for neuroscience over a decade in the making, an international team of researchers have completed a full brain map of an insect, the next step in what neuroscientists ...