How evolutionary adaptations enable a fruit fly to detect and thrive on toxic food sources
The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches.
Fruit flies' courtship song may hold key to controlling mosquitoes
How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes.
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Evolutionary adaptations have enabled the fruit fly Drosophila busckii to detect and thrive on toxic food sources.
The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now ...
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Evolutionary adaptations have enabled the fruit fly Drosophila busckii to detect and thrive on toxic food sources.
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is well known as a fruit pest, especially in summer. It is widely used in research and has become one of the best established model organisms for the study of ...
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‘One of the most important species for science’: how the humble fruit fly transformed 4 fields of research
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 ...
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Fruit flies’ courtship song may hold key to controlling mosquitoes
In this video, a male fruit fly (species Drosophila melanogaster) flaps its wings, creating a distinct "song" to attract a female. Mosquitoes have the same gene and a similar courtship ritual ...
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‘One of most important species for science’: How humble fruit fly transformed 4 key fields of research
The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is a familiar sight around ripe fruit. It often goes unnoticed as it deposits eggs on decaying flesh. While we may have consumed these flies ...
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How fruit fly genetics could change the fight against mosquito diseases
The Iowa researchers examined the hearing in Drosophila melanogaster, a well-known and long-studied species of fruit fly. In particular, they studied the fly's Johnston's organ, located in the ...
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Evolution’s many solutions: Nature finds multiple paths to success
Evolution might allow for multiple optimal solutions, depending on the constraints and conditions under which an organism ...