Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily bodily rhythms, including sleep and metabolic disorders ...

In fruit flies, for example, a malfunctioning body-plan gene can produce a fly with legs sprouting from where the antennae should be on the head. Or the fly has an extra set of wings -- or no ...

Sturtevant Uses Crossing-Over Data to Construct the First Genetic Map Soon after Morgan presented ... the genes located on the X chromosome of fruit flies (Weiner, 1999). The two additional ...

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

The labeled, three-dimensional map includes around 100,000 ... On top of that, 75% of human genetic diseases have similarities with fruit flies. Currently, many human neurological diseases are ...

With its genetic accessibility ... researchers analyzed the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to map its neural connections to identify circuit motifs that alter visual processing in aggressive ...

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 the other hand, show clear ...

Morgan chose to use the prolific fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model to study genetics. Then, for a period of three years, Morgan and his students struggled to find a way to create a fly ...

Making just three genetic changes turned regular fruit flies into “monarch flies,” able to withstand plant toxins and store the chemicals as the flies transformed from maggots to adults ...