In all organisms, gene regulation is crucial for proper cell function and development. Dosage compensation is one such mechanism of gene regulation. In Drosophila melanogaster, …
Understanding individuals’ choice to self-administer drugs of abuse is an ongoing endeavor. Drosophila is an excellent model to investigate this due to the impressive temporal …
To understand interplays between the mitochondria and nucleus, genetically different Drosophila populations have been bred upon two distinct environments: a control diet, and an experimental …
Transposable elements (TEs) are parasitic mobile sequences of DNA that can proliferate throughout the genome by replicating and reinserting themselves into new regions of DNA. …
Alcohol Use Disorder is a chronic relapse disorder driven by the persistence of cravings, despite its deleterious social and health ramifications. The development of adequate …
To explore the problem of aging, we used fruit flies to model the physiological effects of genes and environment. The biochemistry of Drosophila melanogaster can …