In the April 18 issue of Science, Dr. Dickinson reported on the turns of fruit flies called saccades.
They can be white, rosy, pink, yellow, or bright red, depending on the variety, and are pollinated by tiny flies called midges in many areas.
The best-studied case of insect eyestalks can be found in a family of flies called Diopsidae, or the stalk-eyed flies (Chapman et al. 2005).
Now, a newly discovered gene in flies called hangover may explain why these traits seem to go hand in hand.
The less adept mice, Rubin's team found, carry extra copies of a previously known human gene called DYRK; a mutated version of an almost identical gene in fruit flies, called minibrain, causes neurological defects.
WASHINGTON — Air Force One has become a flying call center, the Oval Office, a revolving door of journalists, dignitaries and celebrities.
Just as biologists who study the Drosophila fruit fly call themselves fly people, researchers with a special interest in the mouse for its own sake are known as mouse people.
It was Kozma who mistakenly thought he heard left fielder Matt Holliday calling him off on Andrelton Simmons's pop-up in the wild-card game in Atlanta, only to be saved by the umpire Sam Holbrook's controversial infield fly call.
On the other hand, a play like the infield fly call that some believe cost the Atlanta Braves a chance at coming back in last season's wild-card round against the St . LouisCardinals might not be eligible for a challenge.
The Atlanta Braves weren't so lucky after a controversial "infield fly" call by Sam Holbrook short-circuited a rally in the one-game Wild Card playoff versus the Cardinals.
