However, in dancer flies, the opposite is true. Females inflate their abdomens with air and flaunt their hairy legs to appear bigger in the eyes of the males they covet. But the latter ...

Another fly of note is the stalk-eyed fly (Achias rothschildi). Each eye is further away from its body than its body is long. Eyes on stalks are the fly equivalent of a deer's antlers, and similarly ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

Atomic force microscopy, laser ablation, and etching with a witches brew of toxic chemicals: sounds like [Zachary Tong] has been playing in the lab again, and this time he found a way to fabricate ...

Flies are big-time pollinators which have never got the credit they deserve for this service ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Tiny changes in the timing of expression of the gene orthodenticle (otd) can significantly affect eye size in fruit flies. In Drosophila mauritiana, earlier ...