For instance, one protein produced by a key fruit fly gene serves two separate functions over the course of fly development. (sciencedaily.com)
The site's newest sections describe the growing number of fly genes known to have close relatives in other animals, including humans — evidence, researchers are discovering, that the animal kingdom is interwoven genetically by its own worldwide web. (sciencemag.org)
Collins and Anthony James of the University of California, Irvine, thought they might use the mutant bug to test a fancy trick: Take a bit of DNA, called a transposon, that likes to wiggle into genomes, and use it to insert a fruit fly gene for darker eye color into a mosquito's DNA. (sciencemag.org)