While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

More than 40 Drosophila melanogaster ... diseases that are associated with loss of brain integrity and cognitive function. A specialized form of histology, electron miscroscopy affords ...

2003 ). For example, when expressed in the Drosophila brain, Tau protein—which forms neurofibrillary tangle pathology in AD—causes adult onset, progressive neurodegeneration, truncated lifespan and ...

Figure 1. The Drosophila Larval musculature and Representative body muscles — A) Lateral view of a Drosophila 3rd instar larva that carries a muscle specific red fluorescent transgene that highlights ...

The images revealed a brain and primitive circulatory system, including traces of nerves serving the larva's simple legs and eyes, according to the study. "I already knew that this simple worm ...