In fruit flies, approximately 50 "compass neurons ... be used to create computational models that may shed light on how animals navigate and could serve as a model for autonomous vehicle ...

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, ...

Tiny, cold-blooded animals like flies depend on their environment to regulate body temperature, making them ideal "canaries in the mine" for gauging the impact of climate change on the behavior ...

As in other research facilities, too, the fruit flies live in precisely controlled conditions in climatic chambers in the Max Planck Society's animal holding units. For optimum growth, they need a ...

In fruit flies, for example, a malfunctioning body ... be responsible for the enormous variation we see when we survey the animal kingdom.

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a new study. The paradox of enhanced memory despite sleep loss could be explained ...

For years, scientists have wondered how the brain pieces together environmental inputs, compares them to an animal’s desired destination ... found that PFL3 neurons are involved in steering the fly’s ...

"The common fruit fly is an especially powerful animal to study how the external world is represented and processed within the brain," Gallio said. "Many years of work on fly genetics and ...

Here at the University of Sheffield Fly Facility we use the fruit fly as a model organism to study a wide variety of biological processes. Many of these processes are conserved in other animals, ...

The team modified the DNA of fruit flies and zebrafish by inserting variants ... to elemental mercury which evaporates from the animals as a gas. "When we tested the modified animals, we found ...