Spotted wing drosophila sightings are on the rise, according to a June 27 Facebook post by the Washington State University ...

The strawberries in your fridge may have some unfriendly pests in them. A TikTok phenomenon has exposed a little-known fly known as the spotted wing drosophila. After it lays eggs inside ...

Researchers have studied gene expression dynamics during metamorphosis in two species of flies. Published in the Genome ...

When the macrophages’ ability to consume dying cancer cells or Upd3 production was decreased, tumor growth was significantly ...

Drosophila has anatomical features, such as wings and eyes, that facilitate easy characterization. These genetic markers can be easily identified under a microscope.

Research into Drosophila has resulted in at least five Nobel Prizes. First in Fly by Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr is a thorough chronicle of the contributions of these creatures to science over the ...

The Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center is the only institution of its kind in the United States, and the largest in the world. It currently houses over 77,000 different fruit fly strains, most of ...

Ten Drosophila genes, orthologous to candidate human AD susceptibility genes, were validated in our functional screen. For example, loss-of-function in cindr, the fly ortholog of human CD2AP, enhances ...

Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly. For years, scientists have been mapping the fly’s neurons and synapses in an effort to create a ...