But the female spotted wing drosophila has a unique attribute: a saw-like tubular organ, called the ovipositor, which allows them to hack into fresh fruit to deposit their eggs, he said.

Our new series, Animals in Research, profiles the top creatures for science experimentation, starting with Drosophila melanogaster – or, as you might know it, the fruit fly. More than a century ...

An innovative ovipositor for niche exploitation impacts genital coevolution between sexes in a fruit-damaging Drosophila. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 2018; 285 (1887 ...

Dr Erica McAlister uncovers a treasure trove of remarkable insights from the insect world including the innocuous flies that are Drosophila melanogaster. More is known about these flies than any ...

Caitlyn Perry receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in ...

But over the course of the last century, researchers have turned the insect — known to science as Drosophila melanogaster — into a sort of genetic switchboard. Biologists regularly develop new ...