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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Fruit Fly"”.
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Quantitative genetics of gene expression during fruit fly development
… a high-resolution eQTL study on 80 inbred fruit fly lines from the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel, which represent naturally occurring genetic variation in a wild population of Drosophila melanogaster. Using a 3′ Tag RNA-sequencing protocol we were able to estimate the level of …
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Genetic Dissection of Heart Development in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster
The early morphogenetic mechanisms involved in heart formation are evolutionarily conserved. The Drosophila heart, known as the dorsal vessel, functions as a pulsatile tube-like organ containing an inner layer of contractile cardial cells that adhere tightly to an adjacent layer of pericardial …
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Splicing The Clock Is Timeless: From Fruit Fly Behavior To Mammalian Retinal Degeneration
… that sets the pace of the clock in both fruit flies and mice. In a Drosophila screen for novel clock regulators, we identify pre-mRNA splicing kinase 4 (prp4) and show its requirement for establishing a delay between transcriptional activation and repression in the TTFL. One of the …
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Male reproductive success and population control in the Mediterranean fruit fly, ceratitis capitata
… reproductive success in Ceratitis capitata (medfly) are largely unknown. This comes despite decades of research into the reproductive behaviour of this agricultural pest. An understanding of what makes a successful male is of great importance in this lekking species, as one male has the ability …
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Study of the Reproducibility of Proteomics Methods and Variability of Fruit Fly Proteomes.
… assessing the value of proteomics data. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster was used as a well-controlled multicellular animal model to study the relationship between the background variation and expected changes induced by environmental or genetic factors. The data, gathered by two …
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Genetics and Reproductive Isolation of Rhagoletis Flies (Fruit Fly, Eclosion, Speciation, Electrophoresis, Host Selection)
The frugivorous flies of the Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) species group have been cited as examples of sympatric speciation through divergence in host plant association. Despite the attention given to and the controversy engendered by the biology of these flies, both by applied …
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An Invasive Fruit Fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Tephritidae), on Mango in Senegal: Impact on Mango Crop Production and Value, Marketing Practices, and Management
The oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis Hendel, is an economic tephritid that invaded Senegal in 2004 (Vayssieres et al. 2011). This work determined 1) Impact of B. dorsalis on mango crop production and value, and marketing practices, 2) Effect of neem and kaolin on its behavior and development …
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Development of a system to measure cardiac function in the drosophila melanogaster animal model
… and disease. The Drosophila melanogaster (Fruit Fly) has a genome similar to humans and therefore has proven to be an important animal model to study the role of genetics in cardiac function and disease development. Fruit flies are an important basic science model because of the ease with …
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TBD Economic Impact of Fruit Flies in Mango Production in Senegal: Ex-Post Analysis of mango losses in Ziguinchor (Casamance)
… mango producers in Ziguinchor are facing fruit fly infestations leading to important losses in income. The aim of this study is to measure the impact of the losses encountered by mango farmers in Ziguinchor over three years 2012, 2013, and 2014 and conduct an econometric study to examine …
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A single AKH neuropeptide activating three different fly AKH-receptors: an insecticide study via computational methods
… regulated by adipokinetic hormones (AKHs). The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis, and the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis all have the same AKH that is present in the blowfly, Phormia terraenovae; this AKH has the code-name Phote-HrTH. Binding of …
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ΣΥΓΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΧΟΡΙΟΓΕΝΕΣΗΣ ΣΕ ΕΝΤΟΜΑ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΗΣ ΣΗΜΑΣΙΑΣ
… MOST THOROUGHLY STUDIED EGGSHELL BELONGS TO THE FRUIT FLY DROSOPHILLA MELANOGASTER (DIPTERA: DROSOPHILIDAE). THE ENZYME PEROXIDASE WAS FOUND TO BE A STRUCTURAL COMPOUND OF THE EGGSHELL AND IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COVALLENT TYROSINE BONDS, BETWEEN THE EGGSHELL PROTEINS AND THE …
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The impacts of climate change on the summerfruit industry with respect to insect pest incursions
… agricultural industries. The New Zealand summerfruit industry is the fourth largest horticulural industry in New Zealand with a valuable export market worth NZ$30 million per annum. New Zealand currently maintains a valuable fruit fly free status that is maintained by strict biosecurity …
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Quantitative super-resolution imaging of cell polarity proteins using DNA-PAINT
… polarity proteins in epithelial cells of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) egg chambers are given as an example. Firstly, I established an alternative labelling strategy to label polarity proteins for DNA-PAINT imaging using genetically-encoded Halo and SNAP self-labelling enzymes in …
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A Computational Framework for Learning from Complex Data: Formulations, Algorithms, and Applications
… gene expression patterns in the model organism fruit fly and Allen Brain Atlas mouse brain data. I provide a framework to explore spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression during development. I develop evolutionary co-clustering formulation to identify co-expressed domains and the associated …
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Exploiting gene expression and protein data for predicting remote homology and tissue specificity
… product; and (c) a study of ageing in the fruit fly, a commonly used model organism, in which tissue specific and whole-organism gene expression changes are contrasted. <br/><br/>In the problem of remote homology detection, a kernel-based method that combines pairwise alignment scores of …
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Connectome-Constrained Artificial Neural Networks
… select explicit connectome topologies from the fruit fly (one of the smallest BNNs) and impose these onto a multilayer perceptron (MLP) and a reservoir computer (RC), in order to craft “fruit fly neural networks” (FFNNs). We study the impact on performance, variance, and prediction dynamics from …
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Dengue Virus Host Factors
… tools do however exist in the closely related fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. By using a strain of dengue virus that was adapted to propagate in fruit fly cells, we completed a full genetic screen for host factors required for efficient dengue virus propagation. When homologues of these …
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Expression and Function of a Putative Cox-Like Gene in D. melanogaster
… in inflammation in insects, their existence in fruit flies has not been reported. Recent computational analyses by Qi and Singh (2014) have identified putative COX-like enzymes in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Here we compare the expression patterns of these enzymes and the effects of …
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