Agriculture officials are scrambling to deal with a dangerous pest after a large number of Oriental Fruit Flies were found in Brentwood. Now, 99 square miles in Contra Costa County and 112 square ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Sperling and her team sequenced two strains of the genome of the fruit fly species Drosophila mercatorum, — which, unlike Drosophila melanogaster, are naturally capable of parthenogenesis — one that ...

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.” ...