fruit flies
Flight control of fruit flies: dynamic response to optic flow and headwind
... In each experiment, the visual and wind stimuli were presented to tethered fruit flies for approximately 3 min. The optic flow and wind speeds were oscillated in a cosinusoidal manner (i.e. the stimulus ...
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Clock accuracy and precision evolve as a consequence of selection for adult emergence in a narrow window of time in fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster
... In fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, the act of emergence of adults from the pupal case is ...that flies that are developmentally mature enough to emerge during or before the gate is open do ...
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New Record of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Poonch Division of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
... important fruit flies (White and Elson-Harris, ...of fruit fly populations (Ronchi-Teles and Silva, ...its fruit fly fauna has been poorly studied in comparison to other neighbouring countries ...
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Economic avaluation of Integrated pest management technology for control of mango fruit flies in Embu County, Kenya
... IPM control package intervention. A baseline study was conducted in 2011 before the intervention to establish the existing situation in function of variables defined for the IPM package. A follow up survey was then ...
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Effective chemical control of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests in mango orchards in northern Côte-d'Ivoire
... Fruit flies are major pest in West Africa. In Côte-d’Ivoire, they caused heavy losses. Thus, preventive measures are taken to reduce their damage. The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of Success ...
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Social Cues of Future Sperm Competition Received during Development Affect Learning in Adult Male Fruit Flies, Drosophila melanogaster
... reproductive trait, and decreases the availability of en- ergy for cognition. A trade-off such as this may be expected to be particularly significant under stressful conditions, for example, fly lines selected for ...
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Chemical communication in economically important fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)
... tephritid fruit flies, even those that are polyphagous, have some sort of fruit preferences (Rwomushana et ...2014). Fruit flies in the genus Bactrocera have variety of fruit ...
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Pitch perfect: how fruit flies control their body pitch angle
... torques, flies bilaterally modulate their wings ’ front-most stroke angle, ...in fruit flies (Chang and Wang, 2014; Dickinson, 1999; Taylor, 2001; Zanker, ...that flies ’ modulation of front ...
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Organic-Based Attractant For The Control Of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)Infesting Ampalaya (Momordicacharantial.)
... Narayanan and Batra, 1960; Kushwaha et al., 1973; Gupta and Verma, 1978; Rabindranath and Pillai, 1986). Because of the difficulties and/or consequences associated with the control of this pest using chemical ...
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Species Composition of Fruit Flies (Tephritidae: Diptera) and Extent of Infestations on Mango (Mangifera indica L.) in Western Ethiopia
... identify fruit fly pests, keeps track of changes in their population levels, and indicates when or whether to use ...the fruit flies are regarded as quarantine pest in many countries of the ...of ...
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Body appendages fine tune posture and moments in freely manoeuvring fruit flies
... manoeuvring fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) by high-speed video and experimentally scored drag coefficients of legs and body trunk at low Reynolds ...
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Screening of Guava genotypes to natural infestation of fruit flies (Diptera:Tephritidae) in River Nile, Sennar and North Kordofan States, Sudan
... of fruit flies were determined for guava genotypes (Psidium guajava ...four fruit fly species Ceratitis cosyra, ...the fruit fly with varying degrees only two genotypes 15 red flesh ...
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Object preference by walking fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, is mediated by vision and graviperception
... Walking fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster , use visual information to orient towards salient objects in their environment, presumably as a search strategy for finding food, shelter or other ...individual ...
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Detecting Actions of Fruit Flies
... between fruit flies, having more false positives than true positives of a behavior is unacceptable, hence the false positive rate is insufficient to measure the quality of an action ...
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The control of wing kinematics and flight forces in fruit flies (Drosophila spp )
... as fruit flies that operate at Reynolds numbers ranging from 50 to ...range. Fruit flies within the genus Drosophila fit this criterion and are thus well suited for studying the effects of ...
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A visual horizon affects steering responses during flight in fruit flies
... flying fruit flies treat moving features as farther off when they are near the ...Tethered flies respond strongly to moving images they perceive as ...when flies were additionally motivated ...
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Genome-wide sexually antagonistic variants reveal long-standing constraints on sexual dimorphism in fruit flies.
... While sexual antagonism can generate balancing selection, the range of parameters over which simple models of antagonistic selection predict this to be the case is restrictive [16]. The fact that antagonistic alleles ...
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A model of visual–olfactory integration for odour localisation in free flying fruit flies
... Flying fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster ) locate a concealed appetitive odour source most accurately in environments containing vertical visual ...of flies in three visual conditions, with and ...
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Selection on the timing of adult emergence results in altered circadian clocks in fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster
... early–late differences were maintained under a wide range of photoperiods (Pittendrigh, 1981). Both species showed similar changes in circadian period; i.e. the early strains had longer than the parental strains, ...
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Social attraction mediated by fruit flies' microbiome
... the fruit flies’ microbiome produces the most salient cues available for larvae and adults seeking either others or suitable ...Indeed, fruit flies possess a dedicated olfactory circuit for ...
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