A team of researchers have created a new resource for studying motor control of wing movements in fruit flies.

When a species reproduces, typically, each parent passes on one of their two versions (alleles) of a given gene to their offspring. But not all alleles play fair in their quest to be passed onto ...

Researchers have gained comprehensive insights into the entire nervous system of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The study describes in detail the neurons that span the entire nervous system ...

For the first time, researchers at Leipzig University and other institutions have gained comprehensive insights into the entire nervous system of the ...

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) may be pests to humans, but they have their own pests to contend with. Ectoparasitic ...

Cell biologist Bruce Edgar, recognized for his research on cell growth and proliferation, was elected to the prestigious ...

Fruit flies can fly or walk forward at high speeds in a perfect straight line. That’s because, at every moment, a network of neurons in their brain detects even the slightest deviation from their path ...

(5,6) In this study, fruit fly D. melanogaster PGRP-LB Δ, obtained from the Host Defense and Responses Laboratory at Kanazawa University, Japan, was used as the model organism. The flies were ...