The wing of a fruit fly, viewed against a white background ... “The claim that fly and wasp wing patterns are no match for the incredible diversity of colourful butterfly wing patterns is ...

The genes that make a fruit fly's eyes red also produce red wing patterns in the Heliconius butterfly found in South and Central America, finds entomologists. The genes that make a fruit fly’s ...

A painstaking study of wing morphology shows both the striking uniformity of individuals in a species and a subtle pattern of linked variations ... a team of scientists plucked the wings from ...

Secret wing colors attract female fruit flies Date: October 22, 2014 Source: Lund University Summary: Bright colors appear on a fruit fly’s transparent wings against a dark background as a ...

As are the genes that form the pattern of fine hairs on a fly’s wing and the ones that orientate the tiny hairs in our ears. As are the genes that govern a fruit fly’s circadian rhythm and the ...

For example, during a process in the development of a fruit fly called wing disc eversion ... we were able to measure cell patterns on any tissue surface. These tools help us understand how ...

The spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but it’s so much worse. The spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but it’s so much worse. Just as strawberries ...

There was no evidence that enhancing or obliterating the patterns on the wings of male Caribbean fruit flies, Anastrepha suspensa (Loew), had any effect on their sexual success. There is convergence ...

"Our experiment shows that this newly-discovered trait is important in female choice in fruit flies, and is the first evidence that wing interference patterns have a biological signalling function ...