Fruit flies with genetic mutations that severely reduce sleep show enhanced performance in olfactory memory tasks, ...

Fruit flies, known for their love of fruits, have another passion—riding a carousel. Research by scientists in the fields of ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published March 20th in ...

Now, a team of University of Utah Health researchers led by first author Holly Thorpe and senior author Clement Chow, PhD, has used a combination of pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics to ...

Case Western Reserve researchers have pinpointed a gene and brain circuitry responsible for the fruit-fly version of speed dating. In a study featured in PLOS Biology, a team led by Rui Sutton De ...

Cells in the developing heart must find the perfect match, much like a game of microscopic speed dating. Using filopodia—tiny ...

In the 1920s, for example, Hermann Joseph Muller observed that the outward appearance of fruit flies is completely normal even if they are exposed to heavy doses of radioactivity. Their progeny, on ...

CDKL5, one of the five members of the CDKL family of genes, is important for proper neurodevelopment and associated with ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental ...

In 1925, Drosophila pioneer Thomas Hunt Morgan and his students published their first compendium of fruit fly mutations. Known informally as the "Red Book," the catalog was continuously updated until ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits ... As Inc functions as an adaptor protein for Cullin-3 ubiquitin ligase, and Cullin-3 mutations have been associated with autism spectrum ...