Researchers have extracted and analyzed DNA from fruit flies housed in museum collections in Lund, Stockholm and Copenhagen. Surprisingly, the researchers found the fruit flies collected in Sweden in ...

Baylor College of Medicine scientists have filled in the final gaps of the genetic map of the fruit fly, an insect long considered a vital tool in the study of human disease. Collaborating with U.S.

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Genetic quality or genetic compatibility? What do female fruit flies prioritize when mating? Researchers show that both factors are important at different stages of the reproductive process and that ...

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This fruit fly, or Drosophila melanogaster, was collected in Europe around 1933 and added to the entomological collection at Lund University. UW–Madison researchers are using its DNA — with more from ...