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Fruit Flies Evolve in Time with the Seasons: Study
Researchers find that evolution can operate on extraordinarily fast timescales.
Fruit Flies Evolve in Time with the Seasons: Study
Fruit Flies Evolve in Time with the Seasons: Study

Researchers find that evolution can operate on extraordinarily fast timescales.

Researchers find that evolution can operate on extraordinarily fast timescales.

fruit flies, genetics & genomics

sei proteins help protect flies from heat-induced seizures
Image of the Day: Seizure Proteins
Nicoletta Lanese | Aug 14, 2019 | 1 min read
The sei ion channel in fruit flies keeps their neuronal excitability in check.
Fruit Fly Geneticist Dan Lindsley Dies
Kerry Grens | Jun 26, 2018 | 2 min read
A leader in the Drosophila community, the UCSD professor was well known for his so-called Red Book of fruit fly genetics.
Image of the Day: Gene Expression
The Scientist and The Scientist Staff | Apr 9, 2018 | 1 min read
A new algorithm scrutinizes the most hard-to-read segments of the genome.
Q&A with Michael Young, Nobel Laureate
Ashley P. Taylor | Oct 2, 2017 | 5 min read
Young talks with The Scientist about studying circadian rhythms in fruit flies, the applications of his work beyond Drosophila, and winning the prize. 
Q&A with Nobel Laureate Michael Rosbash
Ashley Yeager | Oct 2, 2017 | 3 min read
A basic curiosity about how life works led the Brandeis University molecular biologist to discover how our bodies keep time. 
Enzyme Required for Mitochondrial Genome Destruction
Abby Olena, PhD | Mar 22, 2017 | 3 min read
Mitochondrial DNA polymerase is necessary for the destruction of paternal mtDNA in fruit fly sperm, scientists show.
Picturing Inheritance, 1916
Amanda B. Keener | May 1, 2016 | 3 min read
This year marks the centennial of Calvin Bridges’s description of nondisjunction as proof that chromosomes are vehicles for inheritance.
Lords of the Fly, circa 1910
Dan Cossins | Sep 1, 2013 | 3 min read
In a cramped lab overflowing with fruit flies, Thomas Hunt Morgan and his protégés made the discoveries that laid the foundations of modern genetics.
Burgers and Flies
Megan Scudellari | May 1, 2012 | 9 min read
Inspired by Darwin, Mohamed Noor has uncovered the molecular dance by which a single species becomes two.
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