How the brain translates changes in internal metabolic state or perceived food quality into alterations in feeding behavior remains poorly understood. Studies in Drosophila larvae have yielded ...

Figure 1: retn is antagonistic to fruM in production of courtship and development of the moL. Figure 3: Nonoverlapping expression of retn and fruM in the mid-pupal CNS. Figure 5: fru and dsx act as ...

Until now researchers have failed to identify the specific pheromone in Drosophila melanogaster that leads to mating success. Although the pheromones that inhibit mating in Drosophila were known, the ...

Scientists have developed a novel transgenic system which allows them to remotely activate individual brain cells in the model organism Drosophila using ambient temperature. This powerful new tool for ...

The first steps of animal speciation are thought to be the development of sexual isolating mechanisms. In contrast to recent progress in understanding the genetic basis of postzygotic isolating ...

During early development, tissues and organs begin to form through the shifting, splitting, and growing of many thousands of cells. A team of researchers headed by MIT engineers has now developed a ...

Genetic studies in model organisms, including Drosophila, have a rich history of fundamental insights in neuroscience, including the identification and functional dissection of genes important in ...

Hygrosensation (humidity sensing) is a critically important sensory modality for animals that have large surface area to volume ratios (Knecht et al., 2017), as they are easily prone to desiccation.