fruit fly
any of numerous small dipterous insects of the family Tephritidae, the larvae of which feed on the fruit of various plants.
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The current project, FlyWire, is an ambitious effort to map neuronal connections in the entire brain of a fruit fly.
Eight ways scientists are unwrapping the mysteries of the human brain | Hannah Thomasy | August 25, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewLast year, Google and the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute made headlines when they similarly mapped a portion of a fruit fly brain.
Google and Harvard Unveil the Largest High-Resolution Map of the Brain Yet | Jason Dorrier | June 6, 2021 | Singularity HubJanelia’s Gerry Rubin told Stat he and his team have overseen a 1,000-fold increase in mapping speed since they began work on the fruit fly connectome in 2008.
Google and Harvard Unveil the Largest High-Resolution Map of the Brain Yet | Jason Dorrier | June 6, 2021 | Singularity HubIf molecular mechanisms behind sleep could be uncovered — if a well-understood model organism like the fruit fly could be used to study them — then there was the potential for a revolution in sleep science as well.
Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras Are Living Proof. | Veronique Greenwood | May 18, 2021 | Quanta MagazineThey were part of two independent groups that had begun to look closely at the quiescence of fruit flies.
Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras Are Living Proof. | Veronique Greenwood | May 18, 2021 | Quanta Magazine
Everyone has a mosquito story they want to tell her—not like when she was studying drosophila, the fruit fly.
Mosquitoes Love Some People More and Science Wants to Know Why | Josh Dzieza | August 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe most extensive and conclusive experiments along this line are those by Morgan on the fruit fly Drosophila.
The Organism as a Whole | Jacques LoebFruits are especially likely to be infected by the small fruit fly commonly found around markets and stands.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) | Grant HagueAgain, a mutant stock in the fruit fly (Drosophila) has as its most marked characteristic very short wings.
Applied Eugenics | Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill JohnsonThe earlier ripening fruit usually escapes damage from fruit fly, but the late fruit often suffers considerably.
Fruits of Queensland | Albert BensonMany kinds of pears do well, but, unfortunately, this fine fruit is very liable to be attacked by fruit fly.
Fruits of Queensland | Albert Benson
British Dictionary definitions for fruit fly
any small dipterous fly of the family Trypetidae, which feed on and lay their eggs in plant tissues: See also gallfly
any dipterous fly of the genus Drosophila: See drosophila
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