Fruit flies with genetic mutations that severely reduce sleep show enhanced performance in olfactory memory tasks, ...

Excessive memory functions in inc mutants are not restored via PKA manipulations. Huang S, et al., 2025, PLOS Biology, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sheng Huang and ...

The restrictions in Birkdale on the North Shore will remain in place until 10 April.

Warmer weather will be here before you know it. This year, if you want to avoid fruit flies or any annoying pests in your kitchen at all costs, follow these tips. Preventing the problem before it ...

However, they note that flies are attracted to "foul-smelling discharges from body openings," where they lay their eggs. These eggs then hatch into maggots. And the said that his wife had been ...

Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Tiny changes in the timing of expression of the gene orthodenticle (otd) can significantly affect eye size in fruit flies. In Drosophila mauritiana, earlier ...

Early last month, an Oriental fruit fly was discovered in the Mangere/ Papatoetoe area, kicking off a Controlled Area Notice and increased trapping in the area. This month, controls in the area were ...

India's Gaganyaan mission, the country’s first crewed mission set for 2025, will launch 20 fruit flies into space to study kidney stone formation, as space travel increases the risk of such conditions ...

Legal controls over the movement of fruit and vegetables in areas of Auckland's North Shore are in place after the discovery of another Oriental fruit fly. The single male Oriental fruit fly was found ...

Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) says that discovery of a male Oriental fruit fly on Auckland’s North Shore is a cause for concern for growers. The fruit fly was detected in a suburban backyard in ...