A team of scientists has created the first complete map of the circadian clock in the brain of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), uncovering ... Some of these newly identified neurons share ...

Fruit flies, or Drosophila melanogaster, are ideal models for this research ... They require minimal resources, reproduce rapidly, and are easy to maintain. These characteristics make them ideal for ...

Here, we investigate the potential link between ER exit sites and P-bodies in Drosophila melanogaster egg chambers ... P-bodies colocalized with ERES display distinct characteristics differentiating ...

Learn more about eLife assessments Feeding assays were performed using carboxylic acids with varying pH levels, from acidic to neutral, to examine the effect of pH on the behavioral characteristics ..

Many flies are plagued by parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in fly larvae, turning them into surrogate wombs for wasp larvae. One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by ...

A map of all connections in the fly brain For Drosophila, an international ... Some of the newly identified clock neurons also show characteristics that were originally only known from clock ...

For the organism it is important to replenish internal energy storages selectively and selective appetite for nutrients might uncover internal energy requirements. How is the selective uptake of a ...

Avian navigation: the geomagnetic field provides compass cues but not a bicoordinate "map" plus a brief discussion of the alternative infrasound direction-finding hypothesis.

1 Clinical Laboratory, Qingdao Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Qingdao Hiser Hospital Affiliated of Qingdao University, Qingdao Key Laboratory of Immunodiagnosis, Qingdao, China 2 Shandong ...