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He thought that natural selection had operated on us, just as it had on fruit flies and centipedes.

The adipose gene was first discovered in fruit flies more than 50 years ago, but until now scientists did not know how it worked.

The next time you see fruit flies hovering in the kitchen, get out a fine-misting spray bottle and fill it with rubbing alcohol.

She piled enough on her plate to feed a large colony of fruit flies. "Whoooa, cowgirl, " I said.

The weaver ants, it turns out, are very thorough about hunting down and eating fruit flies, as well as a host of other pests.

Strangely, though, Dr. Marcotte did not discover the new genes in the human genome, nor in lab mice or even fruit flies.

But now scientists have shown that, at least for fruit flies, the smell of ripe and rotting fruit is the ultimate turn-on.

As one of the major measures in monitoring, investigating and controlling the fruit flies, baits and traps are extensively adopted.

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

In 1962 someone at the Genetics Institute in Pavia , Italy, turned up the temperature in an incubator holding fruit flies.

The scale of that work, though, hardly compares with today's quests to map the brains of mice and fruit flies.

Dickinson's team studied this process in fruit flies using high-speed digital imaging equipment and a fancy fly swatter .

Like most animals, fruit flies must distinguish between a potential mate and a potential competitor.

The team specifically targeted the olfactory nerve cells, or neurons, in fruit flies that are normally triggered by the smell of ripe fruit.

To tease out the relationships between sleep, starvation and survival, the researchers deprived fruit flies of both food and sleep.

The researchers did close examinations of the genomes of organisms ranging from yeast to fruit flies to the plant Arabidopsis to humans.

In fact, fruit flies are so common in African mangoes that America has banned their import altogether, to protect its own orchards.

Male fruit flies give females a gentle pat on the behind to let them know they are interested (not much different from some guys I know).

Why can't they get a bug? One of those fruit flies.

Other researchers had shown that reducing the activity of the pathway in round worms and fruit flies extends lifespan.

She piled enough on her plate to feed a large colony of fruit flies.

As she would say, go tell it to the fruit flies.

Prof Graff's team studied how the adipose gene worked by switching it on and off in fruit flies and mice.

Best of all, experiments on fruit flies are not subject to vetting by ethics committees.

A new laboratory study on fruit flies may lead to a new way of looking at social behavior.

The Wisconsin laboratory has pioneered ways of studying sleep in different species, including fruit flies.

The study examined the effects of starvation on fruit flies that had been genetically engineered to be sensitive to sleep deprivation.

It was then injected into mice, while food treated with the extract was given to fruit flies.

Radiation has a strong effect on the heredity of fruit flies.

Laboratory research has shown that altering single genes can extended the lifespan of species of worms and fruit flies.

The large gene makes a set of male-specific proteins found exclusively in the nervous system of fruit flies, in about 2 percent of neurons.

Researchers performed a simple experiment in mice and fruit flies to test this idea.

The results showed that LBP features are effective to the automatic identification of fruit flies.

The alike fruit flies are the first insects ever cloned, says the Canadian team that created them.

There were dizzy bees bow-tied fruit flies turning somersaults and humming in the air.

They're also continuing their pioneering research into flying decapitated fruit flies.

The scientists are also studying fruit flies, which share 60 per cent of human genes and age in a similar manner, and mice.

Agricultural scientists have also looked at controlling fruit flies with parasitic wasps.

In a separate location is a frog's favorite meal: fruit flies in almost all sizes.

Drunken fruit flies could be the key to helping combat alcoholism in humans.

Resveratrol has been shown to extend the lives of other organisms including yeast, roundworms and fruit flies.

Fruit flies have solved a computing problem that has vexed computer scientists for decades.

Others have used cytogenetics to make fruit flies smell bananas when they see blue light, for instance.

When fruit flies mate, the female stores the male's sperm in a special pouch.

This is a collection of miniature DNA test sites on a sliver of glass that will rapidly discriminate between four species of fruit flies.

In fruit flies, for instance, the mutation called Antennapediacauses legs to sprout where antennae should grow.

In fruit flies, about 40 percent of the genome fits this description. In humans, it's closer to two-thirds.

They found that starving fruit flies spent more time awake than satiated flies did.

In contrast, studies on dogs and cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, zebra fish, fruit flies and other animals have remained about the same.

In the May 29th issue of Cell, scientists report discovering a gene that controls fruit flies' sensitivity to ethanol.

Brown's study challenges the research of Angus J. Bateman , who in 1948 conducted a study on the mating habits of fruit flies.

America's Department of Agriculture is creating barcodes for the world's fruit flies.

Cause: Mediterranean fruit flies in the countries and regions.

the weaver ants are really economical and diligent in killing the fruit flies.

Peas, and fruit flies are traditional objects for genetics study.

Fruit flies gather around patients with cirrhosis of the liver, but there are no books by fruit flies.

The team's latest work draws not on human subjects, but on fruit flies.

There are lions, zebras, gazelle s, wildebeests, snakes, many birds, and even wasps and fruit-flies, which go nuts about their own gender.

in fact, removing bacteria with antibiotics made old fruit flies live 10% longer.

There are lots of fruit flies flying around those rotten bananas.

In 1996, Hoffmann, now 70, was working with some genetically modified fruit flies and infecting them with fungi or bacteria.

Few free fruit flies fly from flames !

Male fruit flies, for instance, may romance other males because they lack a gene that enables them to distinguish between sexes.

We would have some science, but mainly we would have very fast fruit flies.

Michael Dickinson from the California Institute of Technology used high-speed digital video to record the evasive maneuvers of fruit flies.

This makes them more efficient than swallowtail butterflies (3. 6), fruit flies (1. 8) and bumble bees (2. 5).

Previously, scientists have used frog eggs to study the olfactory receptors of moths, honeybees and fruit flies.

This is my compost bin. I got so many fruit flies around it, I hope my neighbors can understand it. I already do my best to keep it neat.

Characteristics of fruit flies intercepted in Fuzhou airport and its quarantine measures

Studies on the occurrence and geographical distribution of fruit flies infecting fruits and vegetables inspected with lure in Sichuan

The research progress on the population genetic relation of fruit flies basing on molecular genetic markers

Monitoring of fruit flies species and preliminary investigation of host plant in Fujian Province

Researches in chromosome behavior included: the mitosis of silkworms and fruit flies;

Establishment and maintenance of pest free areas freedom from fruit flies in Australia

The test of emergency strategy model for entry of dangerous fruit flies from foreign countries

The monitoring of fruit flies in Sichuan province

Comparative Effect of Carrot and Radish on Life Span of Fruit Flies

Controlling Fruit Flies in Hawaii

Fruit Flies Join Astronauts in Space