fruit flies

He thought that natural selection had operated on us, just as it had on fruit flies and centipedes.

他认为自然选择对我们产生了作用，正如对待果蝇和蜈蚣那样。

The adipose gene was first discovered in fruit flies more than 50 years ago, but until now scientists did not know how it worked.

50多年前科学家们在果蝇首次发现脂肪基因，但直至现在，它的作用机理仍不清楚。

The next time you see fruit flies hovering in the kitchen, get out a fine-misting spray bottle and fill it with rubbing alcohol.

当你下次看到果蝇在你的厨房里徘徊的时候。拿出一个比较好的喷雾瓶，倒好酒精。

She piled enough on her plate to feed a large colony of fruit flies. "Whoooa, cowgirl, " I said.

她在自身的盘子里堆了很多葡萄，足够喂一大群果蝇的。

The weaver ants, it turns out, are very thorough about hunting down and eating fruit flies, as well as a host of other pests.

调查结果显示，编织蚁对于捕获和消灭果蝇以及很多其他的害虫都有非常彻底的效果。

Strangely, though, Dr. Marcotte did not discover the new genes in the human genome, nor in lab mice or even fruit flies.

奇怪的是，马克特博士不是在人类染色体组中发现那些基因的，甚至也不是在实验室的小白鼠和果蝇身上。

But now scientists have shown that, at least for fruit flies, the smell of ripe and rotting fruit is the ultimate turn-on.

但是现在科学家已经指出，至少是水果类的，熟透快要烂掉的水果味道才是那最后的味道。

As one of the major measures in monitoring, investigating and controlling the fruit flies, baits and traps are extensively adopted.

引诱剂和诱捕器是实蝇类害虫监测、调查和防治中最重要的手段之一，被广泛采用。

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

时光像箭一样飞逝，水果像香蕉一样飞逝？。

In 1962 someone at the Genetics Institute in Pavia , Italy, turned up the temperature in an incubator holding fruit flies.

1962年，在义大利巴维亚遗传学研究所里，有人调高了某个果蝇培养箱的温度。

The scale of that work, though, hardly compares with today's quests to map the brains of mice and fruit flies.

然而这项工作的规模难以和今天绘制鼠脑或是果蝇脑的问题相比。

Dickinson's team studied this process in fruit flies using high-speed digital imaging equipment and a fancy fly swatter .

迪金森的团队以果蝇研究了该过程，采用高速数码成像设备和一个假想的拍蝇者。

Like most animals, fruit flies must distinguish between a potential mate and a potential competitor.

像大多说动物一样，果蝇必须区分潜在的配偶和潜在的敌人。

The team specifically targeted the olfactory nerve cells, or neurons, in fruit flies that are normally triggered by the smell of ripe fruit.

研究小组特别针对的是嗅觉神经细胞或者神经元，而果蝇的这些细胞通常会被成熟水果散发的味道激发。

To tease out the relationships between sleep, starvation and survival, the researchers deprived fruit flies of both food and sleep.

为了找到睡眠、饥饿和生存之间的关系，研究人员同时剥夺了果蝇的食物和睡眠。

The researchers did close examinations of the genomes of organisms ranging from yeast to fruit flies to the plant Arabidopsis to humans.

研究人员对从酵母菌、果蝇、拟南芥到人类的生物都作了仔细的实验。

In fact, fruit flies are so common in African mangoes that America has banned their import altogether, to protect its own orchards.

事实上，非洲芒果中的果蝇太普遍了以至于美国禁止了他们所有的出口芒果以保护美国本土的果园。

Male fruit flies give females a gentle pat on the behind to let them know they are interested (not much different from some guys I know).

雄果蝇会轻拍一下雌果蝇的屁股让她们知道他们对她们有兴趣（跟我知道的某些男人没多大区别）。

Why can't they get a bug? One of those fruit flies.

他们干嘛不养只昆虫养只果蝇就好了

Other researchers had shown that reducing the activity of the pathway in round worms and fruit flies extends lifespan.

其他研究者已经表明在果蝇和线虫上降低该途径的活力可以延长寿命。