A particularly useful model organism is Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly. This fly has become the main invertebrate model used to study developmental genetics. It has been ...

More than 40 Drosophila melanogaster genes have been discovered for which recessive, loss-of-function mutations cause adult onset degeneration of the central nervous system (CNS). A table ...

Female wasps of this species inject their eggs into the abdomens of adult fruit flies using a specialized organ, the ovipositor ... presence of the wasp in Drosophila melanogaster, a widely ...