The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental ...

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 ...

The nervous system is a marvel of biological engineering, composed of intricate networks that control every aspect of an ...

Dr Robert Wessells at Wayne State University are researching exercise mediators and mimetics in fruit flies (Drosophila ...

Innate immunity has come to the forefront in immunology, aided by the discovery of antifungal defense in drosophila. Here Jules Hoffmann recounts his team's pioneering work on insect immunity.

According to their model, if they changed the magnitude of various parameters, they should be able to rescale the curves so that they essentially collapse onto a single curve. “This makes our ...

This paper presents the important finding that BNIP3/NIX, a mitophagy receptor, and its binding to ATG18 are required for mitophagy during muscle cell reorganization in Drosophila. Although the ...

They found that a slight change in the timing of expression of a gene called orthodenticle (otd) can cause a significant ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental temperature. A research team has recently demonstrated how temperature can affect ...