Fruit fly

Usage examples of drosophila.

Drosophila melanogaster, which gathers like specks of coal dust, seemingly magnetically attracted to over-ripe fruit.

She knew it when she looked small enclosure swarming with Drosophila melanogaster, the vinegar fruit fly.

One of them pointed to Bill, and the two spoke for a while, and the first one started over toward Bill, but the Resistance leader who had collected Bill, Commandante Luther Anastasius Lambert Hendricks Bavan Drosophila Melanogaster Farkleheimer, cut them off before they could get within speaking distance, ordered them out of the room.

From this and other types of experiment, it is beyond dispute that, even by the most rigid of the criteria used by mammalian psychologists, Drosophila show not merely habituation and sensitization but classical and operant conditioning based on visual, olfactory and even touch cues.

Naturally he had nothing whatever to do with these Morganists--Mendelians--Weissmannites who merely built castles in the air with their drosophilas, completely divorced from reality.

For the bulk of this century a favoured organism for geneticists to study, because of the ease with which it can be maintained, its rapid breeding cycle and the possibility of studying populations of many thousands, has been the tiny fruit fly (sometimes called vinegar fly), Drosophila melanogaster, which gathers like specks of coal dust, seemingly magnetically attracted to over-ripe fruit.

I'd been looking at one of Slavsky's books, at a coloured illustration of the nervous system of the Drosophila melanogaster, while I was mentally going through the details of my cover.

The fact is that this bird will pick up fruit flies unerringly, only those, only the one species Drosophila melanogaster.