And if the virtual fly tasted sugar only on the right side of its proboscis, the brain sent commands to bend it toward the right. Anita Devineni, a Drosophila expert at Emory University who was ...

Genetic studies in model organisms, including Drosophila, have a rich history of fundamental insights in neuroscience, including the identification and functional dissection of genes important in ...

Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...

It's an accomplishment that scientists have dreamed about for more than half a century. At last, a massive international team ...

In a study appearing in the journal PNAS, she and her colleagues investigated the sensory information the moths rely on to ...

Like bees, adult bee-flies are great pollinators. The dark-edged bee-fly's long, straw-like tongue (called a proboscis) is the perfect length to reach the base of certain flowers, such as primroses.

After over a decade of research, the brain of a fruit fly has been mapped by scientists, offering a new level of ...

Salil Bidaye is an expert at using the powerful research model Drosophila Melanogaster (aka the fruit fly) to understand how neural circuit activity leads to precise and complex behaviors such as ...

One impressive species - Moegistorhynchus longirostris - has the longest proboscis (the fly equivalent of a tongue ... This is the fruit fly or common vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Erica ...

The wiring diagram will be a boon to researchers who have studied the nervous system of the fly species, Drosophila melanogaster, for generations. Get the news that matters most ...