fruit fly

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In the field, those 20-inch black-painted aluminum wheels wouldn’t stay pretty for long; those running boards would have the life expectancy of a fruit fly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The researchers studied how a gene called yellow is regulated in the fruit fly Drosophila.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2024

The oriental fruit fly is widespread throughout much of the mainland of southern Asia and neighboring islands, including Sri Lanka and Taiwan, and it has invaded other areas, most notably Africa and Hawaii.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024

We have a million times as many brain cells, or neurons, than the fruit fly which was studied.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2024

Bean shaped and smaller than a speck of sand, the fruit fly embryo begins its life in a whir of activity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee