Feeding female fruit flies a diet low in the amino acid tyrosine improves their ability to endure food shortage, reduces their reproductive output, and causes them to live longer, RIKEN ...

Fruit flies live considerably longer when fed a diet that limits consumption of a certain amino acid during early adulthood, ...

90, No. 4, Dec., 2007 Effect of Adult Diet on Longevity of Ste... Fly longevity is critical to sterile release programs for Mediterranean fruit flies (medflies) because the longer sterile flies are ...

Warmer weather will be here before you know it. This year, if you want to avoid fruit flies or any annoying pests in your kitchen at all costs, follow these tips. Preventing the problem before it ...

A new study suggests that increasing omega-3 fatty acids in the brain could help slow the progression of motor neuron disease (MND). Researchers from University College London (UCL) found that ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Sep., 1985), pp. 467-477 (11 pages) The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae), was discovered in Guatemala ...

The answer? Fruit flies. The study found that a specific gene, Shal, controls a potassium ion channel in the Johnston’s organ — a key hearing structure in fruit fly’s antenna that fine-tunes how the ...

Only three molecular changes are needed for fruit flies to digest milkweed toxins Gene-edited fruit flies have gained some of monarch butterflies’ superpowers — specifically, the ability to ...