First, the researchers dropped
the flies into an ethanol vapor - infused inebriometer, a long vertical tube with platforms on which flies can land.
Not exact matches
The endless fields of corn and soybeans blur
into the expanses of the American Middle West,
fly - over country, where
ethanol plants and windmill farms have sprouted in recent years but nothing much makes the national news.
So the pathways that spring
into action to increase membrane fluidity in cold
flies also appear to contribute to increased
ethanol tolerance, says Montooth, whose team reports its results today in the Journal of Experimental Biology.