Diptera

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Anticipation of oxidative damage decelerates aging in virgin female medflies: hypothesis tested by statistical modeling. 
  • Carbon monoxide binding by simple heme proteins under photodissociating conditions. 
  • Chromosome segregation. Programmed to stay together. 
  • Compositional interpretations of medfly mortality. 
  • Evolution of novel abdominal appendages in a sepsid fly from histoblasts, not imaginal discs. 
  • Explaining fruit fly longevity. 
  • Fruit fly aging and mortality. 
  • Highly variable sperm precedence in the stalk-eyed fly, Teleopsis dalmanni. 
  • How Big Is Your Y? A Genome-Sequence Based Estimate of the Size of the Male-Specific Region in Megaselia scalaris 
  • Human Oestrus sp. infection, Canary islands. 
  • Isolation and insecticidal activity of mellamide from Aspergillus melleus. 
  • Mortality dynamics of density in the Mediterranean fruit fly. 
  • Mortality oscillations induced by periodic starvation alter sex-mortality differentials in Mediterranean fruit flies. 
  • Partial co-option of the appendage patterning pathway in the development of abdominal appendages in the sepsid fly Themira biloba. 
  • Posterior internal ophthalmomyiasis. Identification of a surgically removed Cuterebra larva by scanning electron microscopy. 
  • QTL Mapping in Three Rice Populations Uncovers Major Genomic Regions Associated with African Rice Gall Midge Resistance. 
  • Reproductive potential predicts longevity of female Mediterranean fruitflies. 
  • Sequential utilization of hosts from different fly families by genetically distinct, sympatric populations within the Entomophthora muscae species complex. 
  • Slowing of mortality rates at older ages in large medfly cohorts. 
  • The scuttle fly. 
  • The white gene of the tephritid fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni is characterized by a long untranslated 5' leader and a 12kb first intron. 
  • Ultrabithorax function in butterfly wings and the evolution of insect wing patterns. 
  • What can you do with 0.1x genome coverage? A case study based on a genome survey of the scuttle fly Megaselia scalaris (Phoridae).