#fruitflies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fruitflies, aggregated by home.social.
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How do animal #brains evolve to support ecological specialization? Yaoyu Jiao & Trevor Sorrells explore a @PLOSBiology study revealing that #glia show the most dramatic changes in brains of #FruitFlies adapted to a toxic niche. Paper: https://plos.io/4js7Rms Primer: https://plos.io/42VHcHw
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How do animal #brains evolve to support ecological specialization? Yaoyu Jiao & Trevor Sorrells explore a @PLOSBiology study revealing that #glia show the most dramatic changes in brains of #FruitFlies adapted to a toxic niche. Paper: https://plos.io/4js7Rms Primer: https://plos.io/42VHcHw
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🍎 Apparently, some scientists decided to play Dr. Frankenstein with fruit flies and discovered that tweaking a gene can give them bulging bug eyes 👀. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still trying to find the magic gene that stops our devices from throwing a tantrum with "400 Bad Request" errors every time we breathe. 🙄
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-tiny-gene-big-differences-eye.html #fruitflies #geneediting #bulgingeyes #techfrustration #sciencehumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🍎 Apparently, some scientists decided to play Dr. Frankenstein with fruit flies and discovered that tweaking a gene can give them bulging bug eyes 👀. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still trying to find the magic gene that stops our devices from throwing a tantrum with "400 Bad Request" errors every time we breathe. 🙄
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-tiny-gene-big-differences-eye.html #fruitflies #geneediting #bulgingeyes #techfrustration #sciencehumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Tiny changes in gene expression make big difference in eye size of fruit flies
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-tiny-gene-big-differences-eye.html
#HackerNews #tinychanges #geneexpression #fruitflies #eyesize #genetics #research
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#Wolbachia causes embryonic lethality in #FruitFlies by modifying #chromatin integrity in sperm. @KaurTweets @Symbionticism &co show that this occurs in the wMel-transinfected #Aedesaegypti #mosquitoes used to control vector-borne diseases #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3xgOsBH
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#Wolbachia causes embryonic lethality in #FruitFlies by modifying #chromatin integrity in sperm. @KaurTweets @Symbionticism &co show that this occurs in the wMel-transinfected #Aedesaegypti #mosquitoes used to control vector-borne diseases #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3xgOsBH
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Can't stand the heat? How nutritional status modulates #thermosensation: behavioral & live brain imaging studies reveal why food-sated #FruitFlies prefer to stay at relatively higher temperatures compared to hungry flies #insulin #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/400hmjQ https://pic.twitter.com/8eRF13QtHg
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Can't stand the heat? How nutritional status modulates #thermosensation: behavioral & live brain imaging studies reveal why food-sated #FruitFlies prefer to stay at relatively higher temperatures compared to hungry flies #insulin #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/400hmjQ https://pic.twitter.com/8eRF13QtHg
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#Exposure to high levels of #ozone significantly #increases #MaleMale #courtship among #FruitFlies while making the #OzoneExposed #males #LessAttractive to #females finds a #NewStudy .
As #OzoneLevels rise due to #industrial #pollution & #anthropogenic activities, it can #harm a number of #species of #insects that rely on #SexDetermining #pheromones to find a suitable mate, it added.
#science #entomology #biodiversity #biology #ecological #environmental #research
