Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily ...

Warmer weather will be here before you know it. This year, if you want to avoid fruit flies or any annoying pests in your kitchen at all costs, follow these tips. Preventing the problem before it ...

In addition, few pests have a greater impact on world trade in agricultural products than tephritid fruit flies. Their economic consequences are so great that countries free of the major tephritids ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- A beloved fruit parlor from Kinokawa, Wakayama prefecture in western Japan, has made its way to a popular resort town of Noboribetsu in Hokkaido. Hopes are high that the store's ...

Researchers in Japan may have just unlocked part of this ... it are not identified,” said the researchers. They used fruit flies to study how mitochondria – parts of cells that provide most ...

A research team has recently demonstrated how temperature can affect brain development in fruit flies. They found more synapses and postsynaptic partners in the brain of Drosophila melanogaster ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

“The pace of evolution was incredibly surprising. It’s super fast.” Fruit flies are already known to evolve at a speedy pace. In laboratory studies, the insects evolve resistance to stressors like dry ...

Apples and mandarin oranges in winter. Japan is blessed with mouthwatering seasonal fruit throughout the year. And yet, fruit consumption remains relatively low. The health ministry’s latest ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Tiny changes in the timing of expression of the gene orthodenticle (otd) can significantly affect eye size in fruit flies. In Drosophila mauritiana, earlier ...

Only three molecular changes are needed for fruit flies to digest milkweed toxins Gene-edited fruit flies have gained some of monarch butterflies’ superpowers — specifically, the ability to ...