While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, ...

On a soft piece of fermenting orange, a male fruit fly takes a sip of methanol-rich juice. Moments later, his body pulses ...

A team of bioengineers at Harvard University's Rowland Institute has found two new ways to control a tiny creature, ...

But a team of researchers at Harvard has recognized that there are some behaviors that are so instinctual that it's possible ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has investigated why the fruit fly Drosophila ...

Then again, apparently adding alcohol to their food increases the production of sex pheromones in male fruit flies, according ...

Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, ...

Male fruit flies that drink alcohol become more attractive to females, according to a new study. Adding alcohol to males' ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has investigated why the fruit fly Drosophila ...

elegans (another commonly used model organism), he was curious to see whether the Drosophila fruit flies also had this capability. Co-author Julia Riedl, Louis' student at the time, set off to ...