Their study, published in Scientific Data on March 7, 2025, documents the behaviors of over 30,000 individual D. melanogaster, commonly known as fruit fly, across 105 genetically distinct strains ...

Fruit flies share 60% of human DNA, and three in four human genetic diseases have a parallel in fruit flies. Understanding the brains of fruit flies is a steppingstone to understanding brains of ...

Fruit flies share 60% of human DNA, and have a parallel to 3 in 4 human genetic diseases. Understanding their brains is a step toward understanding those of more complex species, including people ...

The fruit fly, long a staple of neuroscience research, shares about 60% of its DNA with humans and it has proven to be an invaluable model for studying brain function.

The maps published by Rockville-based Celera in March 2000 laid out the sequence for the fruit fly's entire set of genes, but researchers at Stanford University said efforts to determine what ...

200-year-old DNA helps map tiny fly's genetic course to new lands, modern times The humble fruit fly is one of the most thoroughly studied animals on the planet and new insights continue to be ...

Researchers have completed the most advanced brain map to date—that of an insect—an achievement that brings scientists closer to a true understanding of the mechanism of thought. The team led by Johns ...

By breeding fruit flies, early 20th-century scientists figured out the location of genes controlling certain traits, creating the first crude genetic map.

Scientists have found 50 million reasons to study the brain of a fruit fly. That's how many connections they discovered in the first complete map— known as a connectome—of an adult insect's brain.

200-year-old DNA helps map tiny fly’s genetic course to new lands, modern times The humble fruit fly is one of the most thoroughly studied animals on the planet and new insights continue to be ...