With fruit flies, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I asked Jody Green, an entomologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, what causes fruit fly infestations and, more ...

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THE author of this book ranks as the foremost American worker on insect morphology. His contributions on the subject are notable for their clarity and originality of thought, and the appearance of ...

Conversely, flies have a number of proteins with unique ... and many of its components—notably the control of neuronal morphology and the formation of specific synaptic connections—are still ...

New research uses pioneering tools to show how aggressive female fruit flies' vision is regulated to focus on what's important. In most research labs, the scientists are on the same page about why ...

Genes controlling morphology often respond to several independent enhancers ... Gompel is also a member of the ...

On a crystal-clear afternoon above a desert ghost town, a NASA aircraft scoured the ground for minerals. The plane, a ...

The images show the abdomen of flies in which a specific enhancer region ... Genes controlling morphology often respond to several independent enhancers, each determining the expression of the ...

Next we analyzed the relationship of idiosyncratic coding to odor preference, by asking in which neurons (if any) did calcium responses predict individual preferences of flies choosing between two ...

This variability may be part of a bet-hedging strategy, where populations express a range of phenotypes to ensure survival in unpredictable environments. In addition phenotypic variability between ...