Wild African fruit flies offer clues to their modern-day domestic life
Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is quite possibly the most studied organism on the planet. Fruit flies are also quite familiar residents in many of our kitchens, attracted as they are to the fruit bowl. But how do the flies live in the wild? Surprisingly little is known.