... regimes enhance stress tolerance and longevity in Drosophila melanogaster through rapid physiological and mitochondrial adjustments, providing insight into ectothermic thermal stress responses and thermal acclimation. Mitochondrial metabolism Fruit fly Fluctuating thermal regime Stress...

... understood. Here, we used three insect species with different thermal tolerances (the honey bee, Apis mellifera ; the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster ; and the potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata ) to characterize the thermal sensitivity of different metabolic enzymes. Specifically, we measured...

... of beneficial effects in gut microbiota–insect symbiosis. Arthropod Digestive tract Fruit fly Honey bee Symbiosis Termite The evolutionary success of many insects is closely tied to symbiotic associations with microbes ( Douglas, 2015 ; Baumann, 2005 ). Multi-species microbial communities...

... how the recurring sequence and escalation of distinct behaviors relate to the establishment, maintenance and reversal of social dominance. Dominance Behavioral sequence Escalation Fighting Genetic mutants Fruit fly Agonistic interactions essential for establishing social hierarchies...

... to conclude an absence of the dietary restriction longevity effect. Ageing Dietary restriction Fruit fly Overfeeding Reaction norm Starvation Dietary restriction (DR), the limitation of food intake but avoidance of malnutrition, extends an organism's lifespan. The generality of the DR...

... and punishing, suggesting that oppositely valenced parallel memories for it could be established in maggots. Reinforcement Fruit fly Appetitive learning Aversive learning Associative conditioning Valence All organisms depend on the uptake of appropriate nutrients for their wellbeing...

... modulate food consumption in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster . We found that the presence of both single food-derived odorants and complex odor mixtures enhanced consumption of an appetitive food. Feeding enhancement depended on the concentration and the chemical identity of the odorant. Volatile...

... Fruit fly Saccade Smooth movement Animals on the move must rapidly integrate and evaluate sensory information to generate appropriate motor actions. For instance, flies must distinguish between potential threats, a landing site or a food source while locomoting through spatiotemporally complex...

... reactions, this response is controlled by the nervous system and not by a direct thermal influence on metabolism. Fruit fly Thermal performance Enzyme kinetics Locomotor activity Thermosensory receptors Organisms are constantly exposed to environmental challenges over which they have...

... affect performance. Although it is known that brief anoxia exposure may confer cross-tolerance to other stressors, few data exist on the biochemical and organismal consequences of repeated intermittent bouts of anoxia exposure. In nature, the Caribbean fruit fly, Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae...

.... Flight control Flight thrust Fruit fly Insect Optic flow System identification Insects in flight can be portrayed as a black-box multisensory control system: continuous information, such as vision, air flow and scent, is gathered from the sensory organs, then combined and processed...

... must make challenging foraging decisions that simultaneously address their own nutrient needs as well as those of their progeny. Here, we examined how the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster , a species in which individuals eat and lay eggs in decaying fruits, integrate feeding decisions (individual...

...Vladimír Koštál; Jaroslava Korbelová; Rodolphe Poupardin; Martin Moos; Petr Šimek ABSTRACT The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is an insect of tropical origin. Its larval stage is evolutionarily adapted for rapid growth and development under warm conditions and shows high sensitivity to cold...

.... 18 5 2015 8 10 2015 © 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2015 Summary: Elevated daylight activity of female Drosophila suzukii (spotted-wing Drosophila ) is a post-mating response. Sex peptide Fruit fly Pest management Sleep Circadian rhythm...

... for examining deleterious consequences of O 2 reperfusion with possible application for therapeutic treatment of stroke or heart attack. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 7 5 2012 6 8 2012 © 2012. 2012 fruit fly hyperthermia insect oxidative stress...

... for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 22 11 2011 © 2012. 2012 dietary restriction dehydration Euclidean metric fruit fly geometric framework macronutrient Nutritional regulation entails a complex interplay between physiological and behavioural processes. Physiological needs...

... behaviour of the fruit fly Drosophila . We reared flies in chambers in which the animals could freely walk and extend their wings, but could not gain any flight experience. These naive animals were compared with control flies under both open- and closed-loop tethered flight conditions in a flight simulator...

... tracking aerodynamics wing kinematics measurement fruit fly The swimming of fish and the flight of insects are impressive feats of nature. These locomotor displays are the collective result of genetic,evolutionary, neurological, sensorial and biomechanical influences and, when quantified...

... 2008 free flight vision saccades optomotor response aerodynamic force elementary motion detector force balance modelling fruit fly The conventional view that optomotor steering response in flies is due to rotational motion cues has recently been questioned by Tammero and colleagues who...

... of these processes for the control of locomotor forces in the behaving animal. e-mail: [email protected] 21 5 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 wing–wing interaction wake capture clap-and-fling LEV destruction phase-shifted stroking dragonfly fruit fly...