Executing agile locomotion requires animals to integrate sensory feedback, often from multiple sources. For example, human gaze is mediated by multiple feedback loops that integrate visual and ...

Insects have an open circulatory system in which the heart pumps blood (hemolymph) into the body cavity, where it directly bathes the internal organs and epidermis. The blood contains free and ...

Proteins, the workhorses of the body, participate in virtually every single process in a cell. Different types of molecules, such as sugars, can be added onto a protein to change its role or location, ...

Bursts of rapid evolutionary diversification are widely observed, but their underlying causes are controversial. We tested whether secondary loss of sexual traits could play a role in rapid ...

When a close friend contracted a serious West Nile virus infection, most likely from sitting in his own Santa Monica backyard, it caused me to expand my own considerations of what constitutes a ...

The Drosophila heart is an important model for studying the genetics underpinning mammalian cardiac function. The system comprises contractile cardiomyocytes, adjacent to which are pairs of highly ...

FlyNap (triethylamine) is commonly used to anesthetize Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies. The purpose of this study was to determine whether triethylamine is a suitable anesthetic agent for research ...