Fruit flies—they're just like us. Meaning, booze seems to boost sexytime for the pesky insect that hovers around fermented ...

Then again, apparently adding alcohol to their food increases the production of sex pheromones in male fruit flies, according ...

A female’s pheromones? The last step of mating which is sperm and seminal fluid release?” To test if the latter is pleasurable, Shohat-Ophi and her colleagues used genetically engineered male fruit ...

Researchers have discovered that female fruit flies are more attracted to males that have consumed alcohol compared to those ...

To realize their reproductive potential, male Mediterranean fruit flies must run a gauntlet of behavioral challenges during which they may be edged out by rivals, or fail the acid test of female ...

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is also known as the pomace ... is controlled by how they detect and process the smell of alcohol in their brains. It is important for the flies to correctly ...

Whatever the reason, the enhanced memory joins a list of physiological and behavioral effects on female flies that result from sex ... sex peptide—a protein produced in the male reproductive system ...

A simple, freely available analysis tool and hardware for analyzing fruit flies allows opportunities for researchers in low-income settings or out in the field to screen for genes and nerve circuits ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has investigated why the fruit fly Drosophila ...

Male fruit flies that drink alcohol become more attractive to females, according to a new study. Adding alcohol to males' food increases their release of chemicals that attract females and leads ...

Male fruit flies that drink alcohol become more attractive to females, according to a new study. Adding alcohol to males' food increases their release of chemicals that attract females and leads to ...