Fruit Fly: Drosophila
Regulation of Expression for the RNP 4F Splicing Assembly Factor in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster
... the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster [10], an important model genetic ...that Drosophila RNP-4F is an ortholog of human p110/SART3 and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Prp24, which function as snRNP ...
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Recent progress in understanding the role of ecdysteroids in adult insects: Germline development and circadian clock in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has revealed that ecdysteroid biosynthesis and signaling are indeed active in adult insects, and involved in diverse processes, including oogenesis, stress ...
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Social synchronization of circadian locomotor activity rhythm in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... the fruit fly Drosophila ...between fly strains possessing different circadian periods failed to produce synchrony, social interactions among phase-desynchronized flies did enhance the phase ...
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Mild oxidative stress in fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster caused by products of sucrose splitting
... The influence of 6% sucrose and equimolar mixture of glucose and fructose in larva diet on the level of oxidized proteins and lipids as well as the activity of antioxidant and associated enzymes in adult fruit ...
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Aerodynamic damping during rapid flight maneuvers in the fruit fly Drosophila
... We systematically investigated the effect of body rotation on the aerodynamic torque generation on flapping wings during fast turning maneuvers (body saccades) in the fruit fly Drosophila . A ...
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Correlated changes in life history traits in response to selection for faster pre adult development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... Insects including the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are under intense pressure to develop rapidly because they inhabit ephemeral habitats. We have previously shown that when selection for faster ...
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In vivo length oscillations of indirect flight muscles in the fruit fly Drosophila virilis
... the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has become an important model system for both muscle biophysics in general and stretch-activation in particular (Peckham et ...
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The wake dynamics and flight forces of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... crane fly Tipula paludosa, with sufficient wing separation during both dorsal and ventral stroke reversal appear to make a separate vortex chain behind each wing (Brodsky, ...far fly at relatively high ...
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Collision avoidance and landing responses are mediated by separate pathways in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster
... a fly receives feedback about its translational and rotational movement by spatially integrating responses from individual local motion detectors (Franz and Krapp, 2000; Krapp et ...
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The production of elevated flight force compromises manoeuvrability in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... the fly controls the angular velocity of a 30 ° wide vertical dark bar displayed in the arena by changing the stroke amplitude of its two ...the fly actively stabilized the position of the dark stripe in ...
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The influence of visual landscape on the free flight behavior of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... These free flight experiments demonstrate that flies produce fixed-amplitude saccades of approximately ±90 ° within the horizontal plane (Fig. 7). Free flight experiments in other species have shown that the saccade ...
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The changes in power requirements and muscle efficiency during elevated force production in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... To test that our tethered flight studies provided a reasonable estimate of free flight performance, we determined the maximum load that freely flying females could carry following take-off. This technique was developed ...
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Molecular plasticity and functional enhancements of leg muscles in response to hypergravity in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... Flies were rapidly flash frozen in liquid nitrogen after treatment and total RNA was extracted from the frozen legs of 20 individuals from each line and treatment group using Trizol reagent (Invitrogen) followed by ...
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A comparison of visual and haltere mediated equilibrium reflexes in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... in Drosophila (Trimarchi and Murphey, ...in Drosophila (Dickinson, 1999), Calliphora (Nalbach, 1993, 1994; Nalbach and Hengstenberg, 1994) and Lucilia (Sandeman, ...the fly against the direction of ...
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The visual control of landing and obstacle avoidance in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... Because the most significant changes in direction are made during body saccades (see Materials and methods, and Fig.3), we focused our initial analysis on these behaviors. Of particular interest is the last saccade ...
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Processing of artificial visual feedback in the walking fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... the fly from above (Valvo CCD design board with frame transfer chip ...test fly could be recognized as a dark elongated spot on the homogeneously illuminated background of the video ...the fly by ...
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Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm for Travelling Salesperson Problem
... The Fruit-Fly Optimization Algorithm (FFOA) is an algorithm with a potential to solve the complex optimization ...of Fruit-Fly to search for its solution. The search pattern of Fruit ...
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Witnessing Phenotypic and Molecular Evolution in the Fruit Fly
... white-eyed population. Over multiple generations, students witness the spread of the red eye phenotype, and they later genotype their flies at two variable genetic markers. One marker is located in close proximity to the ...
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Parameter Analysis on Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm
... and Fruit Fly Optimization algorithm (FOA) [7,8] are some of ...them. Fruit fly algorithm re- cently joined the intelligent optimization algorithms ...in Fruit fly algorithm have ...
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Actin genes in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata.
... T h e representation of actin sequences in the medfly genome was determined by probing a Southern blot of medfly genomic DNA with the D. melanogaster 5C actin probe at re[r] ...
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