Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

This misfit is now to reveal to him how a characteristic such as eye colour is passed on by parents to their progeny ... which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, vinegar or ...

UC Santa Barbara neuroscientists have reconstructed the entire anterior visual pathway of a fruit fly, a complex series of connections between the insect's eyes and the navigation center of its brain.

Credit: ® Roy Ritchie" /> Credit: ® Roy Ritchie By the end of high school, Patricia Wittkopp was so over fruit flies. They had sparked her passion for genetics, but as she shopped around for an ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Tiny changes in the timing of expression of the gene orthodenticle (otd) can significantly affect eye size in fruit flies. In Drosophila mauritiana, earlier ...

The fruit fly’s eye consists of a highly patterned hexagonal lattice of 800 clusters of photoreceptor cells. Some of the secrets as to how this pattern formed remained a mystery until 2022. That’s ...

the cells and structure of a fruit fly eye, and equations describing some of the biological processes involved. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

So take a look below, and keep your place free of fruit flies. Fruit flies are about an eighth of an inch long, have red eyes (though some species have darker eyes) and are light brown with dark ...

Thus, according to Mendel's principles, a dihybrid cross between two heterozygous fruit flies with brown bodies and red eyes (BbEe X BbEe) should yield offspring with nine possible genotypes (BBEE ...

Northwestern University researchers are the first to visualize how a mechanical wave at the eye epithelium (grey) causes cells to develop into the hexagonal pattern (red) of the fruit fly eye.