Eric Wieschaus, by studying the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, made important discoveries concerning genetic mechanisms of control of early embryonic development, For this research, Wieschaus, along with colleagues Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard...

Eric Wieschaus, by studying the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, made important discoveries concerning genetic mechanisms of control of early embryonic development. For this research, Wieschaus, along with colleagues Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard...

Drosophila melanogaster, a common fruit fly, was one of the first model organisms used in genetic research, and continues to be one of the most important. Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) developed Drosophila as a model system in 1909. Morgan, along with...

Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly, is one of the most studied organisms in the field of genetics. D. melanogasteris a tiny fly, only two to three millimeters in length and is often found around grapes and rotten bananas. They...

This small insect, also known as the vinegar fly, was a favorite subject for laboratory studies in genetics beginning around 1900. Why did researchers choose to study Drosophila melanogaster instead of another type of insect or animal? Because of its...

Drosophila melanogaster (from the Greek for black-bellied dew-lover) is a two-winged insect that belongs to the Diptera, the order of the flies. The species is commonly known as the fruit fly, and is one of the most commonly used model organisms in...

ABSTRACT We report here the first successful use of embryonic nuclear transfer to create viable adult Drosophila melanogaster clones. Given the generation time, cost effectiveness, and relative ease of embryonic nuclear transplant in Drosophila, this method can provide an opportunity to further study...

ABSTRACT Transvection is a phenomenon wherein gene expression is effected by the interaction of alleles in trans and often results in partial complementation between mutant alleles. Transvection is dependent upon somatic pairing between homologous chromosome regions and is a form of interallelic complementation...

Biologists Peter Lawrence and Gines Morata won Spain's prestigious science award Wednesday for their work showing that fruit flies and humans have much genetic material in common.Lawrence, a British microbiologist at Cambridge University, and Spaniard Morata of Complutense University in Madrid, won the Prince of...