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The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh ...
Drosophila melanogaster is a mainstay of genetics labs, but its wild origins have been mysterious. Scientists have now traced the pesky fly to a particular fruit — a human favorite 10,000 years ago.
Oct. 13, 2021 — Researchers demonstrate a new technique for the cryopreservation of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Frozen Drosophila primordial germ cells, which give rise to reproductive ...
The beautiful, fascinating and often perplexing world around us grows from intricate and convoluted interactions of millions ...
When a fruit fly is navigating straight forward at high speed, why does it know that it's not straying off course? Because as ...
They found that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) voluntarily and repeatedly visited a carousel. Plants & Animals Feb 13, 2025 0. 22. Fruit flies' courtship song may hold key to ...
Everyone knows the common vinegar fly (Drosophila melanogaster), which -- often not quite correctly called a "fruit fly" -- is naturally found in swarms on fruit during the hot season, especially ...
African researchers are using Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies to advance studies of genetics, biomedicine, developmental biology, toxicology and more.
Drosophila melanogaster is a mainstay of genetics labs, but its wild origins have been mysterious. Scientists have now traced the pesky fly to a particular fruit — a human favorite 10,000 years ago.
Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, is in some ways a simple creature. But in others it is so complex that, as with any form of life, we are only scratching the surface of understanding it.
It worked: Drosophila melanogaster suddenly acquired the ability for virgin birth. The research involved over 220,000 virgin fruit flies and took six years to complete.
To explore this, scientists at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona used one of the most well-understood of model organisms in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a long-favored tool for ...
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