Sentence examples for population of flies from inspiring English sources

Imagine a room that is empty except for a large population of flies on the wall.

"We took some population of flies and kept them over 30 generations on really poor food so they adapted so they could develop better on it," Dr. Kawecki said.

In a specialized population of flies that could not detoxify alcohol, however, the genetic engineering made no difference whatsoever.

Students can observe that the composition of the population changes from one generation to the next in a predictable manner: it changes from a mostly white-eyed population of flies to a majority red-eyed population (Heil et al. 2013).

Cold-stress resilience was measured as the average time for a population of flies to recover from a chill coma after being placed on melting ice for 6 h.

Göran Arnqvist of the University of Umeå, Sweden, reasoned that these kinds of tactics might eventually make one population of flies unable to mate with another--creating a new species.

In addition, a large population of "fly-in/fly-out" workers are employed in the area (14 ).

To obtain a relatively pure population of fly IPCs for mRNA extraction, we used laser-capture microdissection (LCM).

The investigation also found laboratory evidence of R. prowazekii infection in the population of flying squirrels at the camp.

Our aim was to assess the functional redundancy of an island population of flying foxes in the seed dispersal of their main food plants.

Scores from both tests were averaged to account for odor preferences among different populations of flies.