Article: Wisconsin Researchers Identify Sleep Gene.

Article: To learn without sleep, fruit flies need a proper dose of dopamine: finding suggests pills could someday replace naps.(Body & Brain)
Science News;  August 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ......shut-eye--or a shot of dopamine. Fruit flies need sleep in order to learn, a study...and his colleagues deprived fruit flies of sleep by handling them gently or...the learning problems in sleep-deprived fruit flies. It's unlikely that the fruit...

Article: Sleepy Fruit Flies Provide Clues to Learning, Memory.
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  June 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......serves as the location of sleep regulation in fruit flies. Through further examination...showed that serotonin affects sleep in fruit flies by acting at the site of...plays a role in increasing sleep in fruit flies offers hope for the future...

Article: Fruit flies, don't bother me
Buffalo Grove Countryside (IL);  October 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ......just that my house has been invaded by fruit flies, and I am constantly clapping my hands...homes, and we encounter the dreaded fruit flies. Yuck! They're everywhere! Last week...the end of the evening there were more fruit flies than guests. I was mortified. I guess...

Article: Zapping Hawaii's pesky fruit flies, grid by grid.
M2 Presswire;  October 11, 2002 ;     441 words ......2002-US ARS: Zapping Hawaii's pesky fruit flies, grid by grid (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...10102002 A quartet of exotic tropical fruit flies--Oriental, melon, Mediterranean and...disgusting mess. That's because the fruit flies' tiny, wriggling maggots spoil what...

Article: Time flies like wind; fruit flies like bananas
Post-Tribune (IN);  August 24, 2002 ;     370 words ......frustrated gardener, goes something like "Fruit flies like bananas." Both statements warrant...with red eyes (if you look closely). Fruit flies can be a pest year 'round, but are especially...get a calculator) of flies can result. Fruit flies have the potential to contaminate food...

Article: NSW: Female fruit flies duped into mating with sterile partners
AAP General News (Australia);  September 24, 2002 ;     262 words ...00-00-0000 NSW: Female fruit flies duped into mating with sterile...Sept 24 AAP - Millions of female fruit flies are being duped into mating with...trade if it takes hold. The male fruit flies are bred in a Sydney factory before...

Article: More evidence that flies sleep like people.(NEUROSCIENCE)(fruit flies)(Brief article)
Science News;  February 16, 2008 ;     229 words ......is important for the human sleep cycle. But a new study is...for GABA controls whether fruit flies fall asleep, just as it does...doesn't influence whether the fruit flies stay asleep or determine how...University in Waltham, Mass. Fruit flies with mutations in the GABA...

Article: Fruit flies' sex drive affected by alcohol
University Wire;  January 18, 2008 ;     530 words ......Penn State, the sexual behaviors of fruit flies change after being exposed to ethanol...those sexual in nature -- of adult male fruit flies after being exposed to ethanol, the...causes intoxication. "We were looking at fruit flies and were trying to see what exactly...

Article: FLIES IN FLIGHT.(space research on fruit flies)
Odyssey;  January 1, 2001 ;     278 words ......gives it its common name -- fruit fly. Fruit flies have long been used in scientific experiments...fruit fly genome. He estimates that fruit flies and people have a remarkably similar...fly is a human with wings, he says. Fruit flies now find themselves in orbit as a way...

Article: Fruit flies eat less and live longer, and so can we.
The Boston Herald;  August 14, 1998 ;     361 words ......well into old age. It's true among fruit flies. And it could apply to humans, too. A study conducted on fruit flies found that strict dieting slows down...compared the fertility and life span of fruit flies receiving a sugar-only diet to those...

Article: Fruit flies with malaria bring new hope of finding a vaccine
The Independent - London;  June 30, 2000 ;     419 words ......been artificially transmitted through fruit flies in a ground-breaking experiment that...year. Scientists believe that using fruit flies to study the transmission of the malaria...deadly diseases. Unlike mosquitoes, fruit flies are used extensively in scientific research...

Article: Farmers urged not to use excessive pesticides for fruit flies control.
PPI - Pakistan Press International;  July 24, 2003 ;     357 words ......excessive use of pesticides to control fruit flies. The losses caused to fruits by fruit flies are varied 5-100 percent. Many conventional...have been tried to avoid losses caused by fruit flies, these pest control techniques included...

Article: GENETIC VARIATION IN FRUIT FLIES LINKED TO HIGHER TEMPERATURES
The Boston Globe;  September 4, 2006 ;     196 words ...CLIMATE CHANGE Fruit flies on three continents appear to be genetically...found that a chromosomal mutation typical of fruit flies in warmer climates is becoming more common in fruit flies at many sites farther from the tropics. The...

Article: FRUIT FLIES DETECT INDOOR AIR POLLUTION: CHINESE SCIENTISTS.
AsiaPulse News;  February 17, 2003 ;     325 words ......scientists recently discovered that little fruit flies are very sensitive to poisonous gases...type of eucaryote multicellular insect, fruit flies have similar physiological functions...scientists detected the abnormal reaction of fruit flies to polluted indoor air through an ...