(1) An apparatus was constructed in which a central compartment communicated with eight wedge-shaped chambers. The conditions in these chambers were rather roughly controlled so that each of them was ...

WESTCHESTER, Ill. – Most short-sleeping mutant phenotypes in Drosophila (a genus of small flies) are characterized by an inability to stay asleep, most likely because of a reduced arousal threshold, ...

Sister chromatid cohesion is essential to maintain stable connections between homologues and sister chromatids during meiosis and to establish correct centromere orientation patterns on the meiosis I ...

Although the organs and cells that mediate hearing in vertebrates and Drosophila appear to be very different from a morphological perspective, they share a striking evolutionary conservation of ...

Drosophila melanogaster, or the fruitfly, is one of the most rigorously-studied bugs in history. Because they breed quickly, and have a relatively small but diverse genome, they are incredibly popular ...