fruit flies

Vision-control movements observed in fruit flies may have evolved to conserve energy, improve performance

Researchers tag the genes of interest with a gene that confers either resistance or sensitivity to specific drugs

Fruit flies have found at least two solutions to the problem of sorting their sex chromosomes

Researchers provide the first description of how certain animals sense the texture of their food based on grittiness versus smoothness 

The discovery of the first social safety cue was made thanks to a tiny insect: the fruit fly

Researchers have discovered that multiple opsin proteins, known for decades to be required for vision, also function as taste receptors

Scientists recreate in flies the mutations that let monarch butterflies eat toxic milkweed with impunity

This finding could tell researchers why behaviors that change with the internal energy state, such as food intake, learning and memory, and sleep change on high-nutrient diets

Using fruit flies, a Rockefeller team has gained key insight into how nature's attempts at innovation play out during the development of sperm

Recent research results may help curb pest populations by encouraging growers to limit access to certain non-fruit food sources during times when drosophila populations are low and berries are not in season