The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases: egg, larva ... In order to analyze them, they anaesthetize them with carbon dioxide and sort them under a microscope by their sex or external ...

They are the tiny, pesky flies circling the fruit bowl in the kitchen: Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, is one of the most important species for genetic research. Using an ...

In the Gortner Laboratory on the St. Paul campus, University of Minnesota graduate student Nate Feltman examines a fruit fly under a microscope. About three millimeters in diameter, the spotted wing ...

For her Ph.D. she spent up to eight hours each day peering at baby flies under the microscope ... Vien acknowledges that, to most people, fruit flies are little more than a kitchen nuisance ...

FRUIT FLIES are ... with a scanning electron microscope (which fires a beam of electrons at a surface and detects any radiation subsequently emitted). Their own fruit-fly connectome, of a male ...

The TEM was purchased under a National Science Foundation grant for $ ... Behavioral Neuroscience), inorganic materials chemistry (Stanton Ching, Chemistry), and fruit fly flight muscle structure ...