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Sex on the brain: ‘Doublesex’ gene key to determining fruit fly gender
The fruit fly New research published in Nature Neuroscience today shows that the ‘doublesex‘ (dsx) gene responsible for gender and body shape in the fruit fly is also responsible for determining the...
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Guest post: Awakening stem cells in the brain – glia sound the alarm
Drosophila neural stem cells in the central nervous system are labelled in green (membrane-targeted green fluorescent protein, GFP). Their large nucleoli (involved in cell growth) are shown in blue...
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Female fruitfly fecundity
Developing egg chambers from the Drosophila ovary. The frequency with which mating occurs has differing consequences for males and female fruitflies in terms of their fitness and lifespan. For males,...
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The Portrait of a Fly (part 1): Come fly with me
For more than a hundred years, scientists have used the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) to study the fundamentals of developmental biology and genetics. But as biological understanding and...
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The Portrait of a Fly (part 2): Fly on the wall
Drosophila: the model model organism; the humble fruit fly with a noble (not to mention Nobel) place in the history of science. Having learned about its importance in genetics and developmental...
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