Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

The researchers' findings, published in Science Advances, reveal that the stellate (Ste) gene—which has multiple copies ...

Also, the fruit fly has only four pairs of chromosomes, so these chromosomes can be easily recognized and tracked from one generation to the next. The Morgan lab therefore set out to examine ...

Researchers provide a new understanding of how Alzheimer’s disease affects different tissues across the entire body. The ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan began his career when genetics was not a defined field ... Morgan tackled these questions with the help of the common fruit fly. Young naturalist. Morgan was born on September ...

Finally, fruit flies share nearly 60 percent of our genes ... made further discoveries about genetics using flies. Muller, for instance, showed that X-ray irradiation causes genetic mutations in flies ...

Morgan’s group had already described sex-linked inheritance: male fruit flies, which receive just one X chromosome from their mothers, express any recessive genes on that chromosome, such as an ...

Outwardly, fruit flies and humans have little in common ... Analyzing the genome of a fly is easier than of a mouse or human, as it only consists of eight chromosomes. By way of comparison: the genome ...

Brookes’ lively account surveys the history of 20th-century biology, using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a guide. Not only did Drosophila-based research pioneer modern genetics ...

While Alzheimer's disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body.

Some genes just don’t play fair. Researchers have uncovered a ‘selfish’ X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance in both sperm and eggs.