DURING spring and summer of this year, I made some experiments with the intention of throwing light on the physiological mechanism of diurnal activity rhythms. An account of some of the main ...

The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches.

A study led by Nikita Komarov and Simon Sprecher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has discovered neurons in the ...

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Researchers have discovered neurons in the fly larva mouth that allow the taste of food texture. The study found that the fly peripheral taste organ has neurons with texture-tasting mechanoreceptors ...

The fruit fly Drosophila busckii can detect and thrive on toxic food sourcesThe ability to tolerate toxic substances can help ...

The mushroom body (MB) is the center for associative learning in insects. In Drosophila, intersectional split-GAL4 drivers and electron microscopy (EM) connectomes have laid the foundation for precise ...

Julianna Wilson had tales to tell about the spotted wing drosophila, the invasive fruit fly that’s become a major pest of ...

The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches.

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 ...