While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, ...

Then again, apparently adding alcohol to their food increases the production of sex pheromones in male fruit flies, according ...

Alcohol enhances the production of sex pheromones, which are chemical signals used by fruit flies to attract mates.

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits ... Since inc mutants displayed higher PKA signaling, the researchers propose that this mutation in the inc gene suppresses sleep via increased ...

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

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 ...

DOUBLE WINGS: An ultrabithorax mutant fly has a total duplication of the body segment that carries wings. Recent issues of The American Journal of Human Genetics have featured a newcomer: Drosophila ...

Bellen is the Distinguished Service Professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor and chair in neurogenetics in the Duncan NRI. The team discovered that the fruit fly equivalent of human ...

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 ...

There’s no single, simple way to assess whether bugs feel pain, but research is giving scientists a better understanding of ...