Mutations in the prickle gene in Drosophila could be responsible for more than just altering the bristles on the fly's body that point them to the wrong direction. Prompted by a colleague's ...

Screening ABCG1, the human homologue of the Drosophila white gene, for polymorphisms and association with bipolar affective disorder G Kirov, C A Lowry, M Stephens, S Oldfield, M C O'Donovan, S L ...

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.

Gene regulation plays a critical role in the development and evolution of organisms, with transcription factors (TFs) serving as essential components that control gene expression. Traditionally, ...

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.

Researchers have used the Drosophila embryo to model human disease mutations that affect myosin motor activity. Through in vivo imaging and biophysical analysis, they demonstrated that engineering ...

In two strains of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, underlying genetic makeup outweighs any other factor in dictating how a specific mutation will affect wing shape, geneticists Sudarshan ...

New findings that build on and expand a previous discovery that mutations in the 'prickle' gene in Drosophila were responsible for much more than merely altering the bristles on the fly's body to ...

A new genome editing system, developed in Drosophila, performs efficient somatic repair of both double strand breaks (DSBs) and single-strand breaks (SSBs) using intact sequences from the ...

A more noteworthy light entrainment pathway is mediated by central pacemaker neurons in the brain. The Drosophila circadian clock is extremely sensitive to light.

In fact, a popular appreciation of fruit flies has seemed long overdue to me. No single animal has contributed as much to the field of genetics as the ordinary and ubiquitous Drosophila melanogaster.