Sperm are the most diverse and rapidly evolving cell type. Why sperm have undergone ... have spent decades studying the mating biology of fruit flies. These small and outwardly unremarkable ...

This is a picture of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) sperm, showing the growing ... and blue marks the DNA of each sperm cell.

The sperm of the fruit fly (Drosophila), is one of the largest ... Furthermore, just as happens inside immune cells that target microbes, LAP's final step in the egg involves the recruitment ...

Caption This is an electron microscopy picture of a section through the flagellum of a Drosophila melanogaster sperm cell. The base of the flagellum is on the left, and the falgellum's skeleton ...

Humans produce insulin in their pancreas. In the fruit fly Drosophila, however, the hormone is produced by nerve cells ...

A study on fruit flies, led by University of Oxford researchers, has found that while old males do produce fewer offspring than young males, this is not because they have fewer sperm, but it is ...

Research published in Nature Genetics today describes 381 proteins present in sperm of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster ... first substantial ’whole-cell’ characterisation of the ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found.

Scientists first discovered chromosomes in the nineteenth century, when they were gazing at cells through light ... several experiments with fruit flies provided the first evidence.