Battle of the Sperms
Inside every Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) female is a sperm battleground where sperm from two different males jockey with each other for the honor of fertilizing her eggs. By sequentially mating females with males […]
Tag Archives: Drosophila
It’s a Male. It’s a Female. No…it’s a Gynandromorph!
You could make a case for “looking weird” being an effective survival strategy. Just ask Calvin the lobster whose calico-patterned shell spared it from dining table destiny. Rather than being […]
A man, a mouse, and a fruit fly walk into a bar: Genetic approaches in understanding Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
The recent buzz surrounding the drinking habits of Drosophila, from dealing with rejection to killing parasites by self-medicating, got me thinking: How might fruit flies be used for research […]
When Species Invade
Adapted from photo by Michael Durum This week’s World Wide Wednesday* features 3 stories about invasive species, which are non-native plants, animals, or other organisms that have been introduced […]
Drug Design and Disease Models: We can do it better in Drosophila.
Last night’s “Future Advances in Drosophila Research” session of the Drosophila Research Conference concluded with Ross Cagan‘s eloquent defense of using Drosophila for better drug design and better […]
#DROS2012 comes to Chicago!
Every year, hundreds maybe even thousands of biologists converge on a lucky US city like fruit flies swarming on yeast. The reason? The Drosophila Research […]
