fruit fly

The current project, FlyWire, is an ambitious effort to map neuronal connections in the entire brain of a fruit fly.

Last year, Google and the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute made headlines when they similarly mapped a portion of a fruit fly brain.

Janelia’s Gerry Rubin told Stat he and his team have overseen a 1,000-fold increase in mapping speed since they began work on the fruit fly connectome in 2008.

If molecular mechanisms behind sleep could be uncovered — if a well-understood model organism like the fruit fly could be used to study them — then there was the potential for a revolution in sleep science as well.

They were part of two independent groups that had begun to look closely at the quiescence of fruit flies.

Everyone has a mosquito story they want to tell her—not like when she was studying drosophila, the fruit fly.

The most extensive and conclusive experiments along this line are those by Morgan on the fruit fly Drosophila.

Fruits are especially likely to be infected by the small fruit fly commonly found around markets and stands.

Again, a mutant stock in the fruit fly (Drosophila) has as its most marked characteristic very short wings.

The earlier ripening fruit usually escapes damage from fruit fly, but the late fruit often suffers considerably.

Many kinds of pears do well, but, unfortunately, this fine fruit is very liable to be attacked by fruit fly.