Sentences with phrase «fly gene affects»

Researchers have found that a small change in a fruit fly gene affects the frequency at which they sing to their mates, Ars Technica reports.

Not exact matches

Keene and his collaborators used fruit flies in their study and created various scenarios between sleeping and foraging to test each gene one at a time to determine which gene didn't affect their sleep.

To see how courting is affected when neurons are hyperactivated, they used flies with a version of a gene that was stuck in the «on» state in clumps of nerve cells.

Studies of worms and fruit flies show that variations, or polymorphisms, in a single gene can affect how long these creatures live.

In the course of this work, he has pioneered several new approaches in the fruit fly that have had important implications for mammalian neurobiology, including: the demonstration that the fruit fly has a sleep - like behavior similar to that of mammals, studies of physiological and behavioral consequences of mutations in a neurotransmitter system affecting one of the brain's principal chemical signals, studies making highly localized genetic alterations in the nervous system to alter behavior, and molecular identification of genes causing naturally occurring variation in behavior.

These fruit flies in a lab at UNLV are good models for studying how genes affect human obesity.

We are able to switch the flies» genes on and off and see what is specifically affected by alcohol.

The study looked at genes and investigated how the loss of those genes affected the fly.

For instance, in the late 1970s, scientists undertook an epic hunt for genes that affect the development of fruit fly larvae.