ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Over the last 10 years, more than 600 scientists at 150 labs have collaborated toward one goal: to map the entire brain of a fruit fly all in the hope of better ...

Collecting a stack of laboratory data, Sturtevant went home and spent most of the night drawing the first chromosomal linkage map for the genes located on the X chromosome of fruit flies (Weiner ...

Hundreds of scientists and citizen scientists from around the world have mapped out more than 50 million connections in the tiny fruit fly brain, a step toward one day producing an intricate map ...

Also, the fruit fly has only four pairs of chromosomes, so these chromosomes can be easily recognized and tracked from one generation to the next. The Morgan lab therefore set out to examine ...