How do insects feel the heat?
Every year, nearly 700 million people contract mosquito-borne illnesses such as malaria, dengue, West Nile virus or yellow fever.
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Mothers use sex pheromones to veil eggs, preventing cannibalism
Species that lay eggs but don't actively keep watch over them often protect their precious eggs from predators by laying them in communal groups or by fortifying them with toxins. However, protecting these eggs from being ...
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Jan 10, 2019
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Flies release neuronal brakes to fly longer
While mechanical and biophysical aspects of insect flight are well studied, the neurobiology and circuitry underlying it remain poorly understood. For insects, while muscles provide the power for flying, the brain coordinates ...
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Jan 9, 2019
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Fruit flies help to shed light on the evolution of metabolism
Diet choice of animal species is highly variable. Some species are specialists feeding only on one food source, such as a sugar-rich fruit or protein-rich meat. Other species, like humans, are generalists that can feed on ...
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Jan 4, 2019
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Algorithms to locate centrioles in the cell
Investigators from the Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group at the University of Extremadura are studying signaling mediated by a pathway known as planar cell polarity (PCP), which regulates the coordinated orientation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 12, 2018
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Wild African fruit flies offer clues to their modern-day domestic life
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is quite possibly the most studied organism on the planet. Fruit flies are also quite familiar residents in many of our kitchens, attracted as they are to the fruit bowl. But how do the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 6, 2018
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Fruit flies can transmit their sexual preferences culturally
Researchers from the CNRS and Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) report that fruit flies possess the cognitive capacity to culturally transmit their sexual preferences across generations. The study, published ...
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Nov 30, 2018
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Cracking open a cold one with the flies
Crack open a beer outside and it is a safe bet that you will soon be defending it from a few unwelcome drinking buddies. Fruit flies have a knack for appearing whenever someone opens up a can of beer or a bottle of wine, ...
Biotechnology
Nov 30, 2018
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Transparent fruit flies
The nervous system of an animal can be studied by cutting it up into thin layers—however this inevitably leads to the destruction of the cellular structures in the tissue. Analyzing complex nerve connections is then hardly ...
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Nov 26, 2018
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Genome-wide rules of nucleosome phasing in drosophila
LMU researchers have, for the first time, systematically determined the positioning of the packing units of the fruit fly genome and discovered a new protein that defines their relationship to the DNA sequence.
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