Studies were conducted on flies zero, one, or two generations removed from selection.
My daughters feed him on flies, breadcrumbs, apricot pulp.
In India Dindymus larvae feed on termites, and the adults prey on flies.
Still, to the layman, even one slightly more versed in the exigencies of scientific research than Sarah Palin, there's something profoundly counterintuitive about doing genetic research on flies.
Experiments on flies show the harm that can occur when cells cannot clear away the old and bring in the new.
Many bats depend on flies for much of their diet, but exactly how they locate their prey has long been a mystery to scientists.
He was hooked, not only on flies, but on the idea of bringing a variety of disciplines to bear on one complex behavior.
Z is for zoophagy The condition suffered by poor Renfield in Dracula; incarcerated in Dr Seward's asylum, he feasts on flies, and then on the spiders he has fattened on flies, and he begs his captors for a kitten... What he truly seeks, of course, is human blood, and he is merely working his way up the food chain.
And where there are drugs that have already been tested on humans and have passed safety requirements but have failed in their efficacy with the targeted complaint, they could be retargeted by first testing them on flies.
It is stated that the swallows, great destroyers of insects, came this year in fewer numbers than usual, and that sparrows, which wage a merciless war on flies and gnats and mosquitoes, are growing steadily less numerous.
"Using 'socialist people management' on flies… Severely control the reproductive system of flies, flies that don't meet the quota should be resolutely attacked and killed," he wrote, aping the language of officialdom.
