The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting ...

The word “drosophila” means lover of dew ... This is one of the main reasons they’re considered a common household pest. Fruit flies originated in certain parts of the tropics.

Researchers produced a cocaine preference among Drosophila, or fruit flies, by muting their bitter-sensing taste receptors, ...

The common fruit fly normally needs a mate to reproduce ... in a species of fruit fly called Drosophila melanogaster. The genetically tweaked fruit flies could then pass down their virgin-birthing ...

In a nutshell Desert fruit flies have evolved to be attracted to heat, not by changing their heat sensors, but by rewiring ...

In a new JNeurosci paper, Adrian Rothenfluh and colleagues from the University of Utah developed a fruit fly model of cocaine self-administration that can be used to explore the genetic underpinnings ...

Rocha had switched to using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster ... I was just so amazed by the fact that we had so much in common,” she says, referring to the 60 percent of our DNA that ...

For the first time, researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies that can become addicted to cocaine. The new ...

That’s where the fruit fly comes in. Drosophila melanogaster — the common fruit fly —shares 75% of disease-causing genes with humans and is a well-established genetic model for studying the ...

Here’s a breakdown of how to handle fruit flies: The fruit fly, or Drosophila melanogaster ... Fruit flies are common in many tropical and subtropical regions in the world and can be found ...