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Genital stimulation opens door for cryptic female choice in tsetse flies

Genital stimulation opens door for cryptic female choice in tsetse flies

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Manipulation of male and/or female genitalia results in a suite of changes in female reproductive behavior in tsetse flies, carriers of African sleeping sickness.





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Flies like us: They can act like addicts, too

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When given the chance to consume alcohol at will, fruit flies behave in ways that look an awful lot like human alcoholism. That's according to a study published online on December 10th in Current Biology that is one of the ...


Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster)

Pesky fruit flies learn from experienced females: Study

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A common household nuisance, the fruit fly, is capable of intricate social learning much like that used by humans, according to new research from McMaster University.


The buzz on fruit flies: New role in the search for addiction treatments

The buzz on fruit flies: New role in the search for addiction treatments

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fruit flies may seem like unlikely heroes in the battle against drug abuse, but new research suggests that these insects — already used to study dozens of human disease — could claim that role. Scientists ...


Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster)

Happy flies look for a place like home

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A happy youth can influence where a fruit fly chooses to live as an adult, according to new research in The American Naturalist. The study, led by Judy Stamps from the University of Califo ...


Drunken fruit flies help scientists find potential drug target for alcoholism

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A group of drunken fruit flies have helped researchers from North Carolina State and Boston universities identify entire networks of genes—also present in humans—that play a key role in alcohol drinking behavior. This discovery, ...


Discovery of natural odors could help develop mosquito repellents

Discovery of natural odors could help develop mosquito repellents (w/ Video)

Biology / Other

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside working on fruit flies in the lab have discovered a novel class of compounds that could pave the way for developing inexpensive and ...


Social memory in Drosophila

Social memory in Drosophila

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Positive social interactions exist within Drosophila: when in a group, Drosophila flies have better memory than when they are isolated. Thomas Preat's team at the Laboratoire de Neurobiologie (CNRS, France) ...


Insomniac flies resemble sleep-deprived humans

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have created a line of fruit flies that may someday help shed light on the mechanisms that cause insomnia in humans. The flies, which only get a small fraction ...


Invasive Nettle Moth Triggers Hawaii Research

Invasive Nettle Moth Triggers Hawaii Research

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like children everywhere, kids in Hawaii love to run barefoot through tall grass. But an invasive pest called the nettle moth caterpillar can take the fun out of this simple childhood pleasure, ...


Fruit fly steps in to fight human disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Belgian scientists have successfully introduced genes coding for a variant of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, into fruit flies. CMT is one of the most common hereditary disorders of the peripheral nervous system. VIB ...



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