Sentences with phrase «wild fruit flies»

Graph showing sleep duration (in minutes) of wild fruit flies — long sleepers, normal sleepers, and short sleepers — artificially bred across 13 generations.

To learn more, scientists artificially bred 13 generations of wild fruit flies to produce flies that were either long sleepers (sleeping 18 hours each day) or short sleepers (sleeping three hours each day).

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Also, I don't know if what you said about fruit flies is true or not (knowing you probably not) but if it is that wouldn't be all that surprising as the new fruit flies would have evolved so that they could survive their new surroundings which were probably much different than «the wild» thus they would no longer be able to survive in «the wild»

@Pete: that wouldn't be all that surprising as the new fruit flies would have evolved so that they could survive their new surroundings which were probably much different than «the wild» thus they would no longer be able to survive in «the wild»

The destructive European cherry fruit fly was found for the first time in the United States last year on wild honeysuckle plants and cherry trees along the Niagara River.

Researchers have constructed this kind of drive in yeast, a fruit fly and several mosquitoes, but none of the tools have been deployed yet in the wild (SN: 12/12/15, p. 16).

Yet, fruit flies rarely interact with the fungus in the wild — pests like the corn earworm caterpillar are much bigger threats — so it's unclear how applicable these results are to the real world, says Marko Rohlfs, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Bremen in Germany who was not involved in the study.

It did not begin to seriously discuss the risks associated with using the approach to engineer genes that could quickly spread through wild populations — known as gene drives — until after experiments demonstrating the concept in fruit flies had been published in a peer - reviewed journal (V. M. Gantz & E. Bier Science 348,442 — 444; 2015).

When scientists engineered the plants to express the glutathione transferase (DmGSTE6) gene found in fruit flies, they found that plants expressing the gene were more resistant to TNT and were better able to remove it from contaminated soil than wild - type plants without the gene.

In the wild, Wolbachia inserts can be found in fruit flies from Hawaii, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India, most likely due to a shared ancestor colonized long ago.

Most fruit flies bred in the lab are less combative than are wild flies, probably because their cozy lifestyle means they don't have to fight so hard to survive.

The flashing appearance of evocative sceneries and objects (horizon, fields, rivers, horses, valleys, trees, fruits, flowers, confinements and flying fish) results in a changing montage of sceneries that entails a reversal of time and the essence of fantasy in its wildest form.