Bengaluru City University (BCU) organised a two-day workshop from Friday (January 17, 2025) at the Jnana Jyothi Auditorium, Central College campus, focusing on “Drosophila melanogaster as a ...

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 ...

Leafhoppers evade predators using nanostructured brochosomes that reduce ultraviolet reflectance through morphology shaped by four novel structural proteins originating from evolutionary ...

The females of this interspecies infiltrator, dubbed syntretus perlmani, reproduce by driving their hypodermic-like ovipositor ... the adult stage of not just Drosophila, but of flies in ...

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 ...

The parts of the genus name refer to the Cretaceous Period -- Creto-- and the string-like ovipositor of the female wasp -- lyra-- referring to a lyre, or stringed instrument. In this case, the ...

Smaller than a grain of rice, and harmless to humans, this eensy arthropod bores into hardened plant growths, called galls, with an organ called an ovipositor. The insect’s target is the larvae ...

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 ...

Drosophila melanogaster tastes vitamin C using gustatory receptors ... tastants elucidates receptor coordination in sweet‐sensing GRNs. Dose‐dependent oviposition choice at indicated concentrations of ...

Despite scientists studying fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) for more than a century, the newfound organelle has only just been discovered in the insect. Now researchers are taking a ...