An international team of scientists has discovered that tiny changes in the timing of the expression of a single gene can lead to big differences in eye size. Gene expression is the process by which ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental temperature.

Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily ...

dry deserts of the Southwest (both cousins of the common laboratory fly, Drosophila melanogaster)—Northwestern scientists discovered remarkable differences in the way each processes external ...

Dr Robert Wessells at Wayne State University are researching exercise mediators and mimetics in fruit flies (Drosophila ...

Using two species of flies from different climates -- one from the cool, high-altitude forests of Northern California, the other hailing from the hot, dry deserts of the Southwest -- scientists ...

A study from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz found that fruit flies raised at lower temperatures develop more neural ...

The nervous system is a marvel of biological engineering, composed of intricate networks that control every aspect of an ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental temperature. A research team has recently demonstrated how temperature can affect ...