Fractionating the Fruit Fly A simple technique reveals that genes controlling eye color in flies also control the production of a whole family of unusual substances. The study has importance for ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

Credit: ® Roy Ritchie" /> Credit: ® Roy Ritchie By the end of high school, Patricia Wittkopp was so over fruit flies. They had sparked her passion for genetics, but as she shopped around for an ...

Fruit flies normally have brilliant ... they began to suspect that white eye color was inherited along with the sex of the fly. This observation confirmed the chromosome theory proposed by ...