Fruit fly aggression studies have relevance to humans, animals
...ht over. And, like people, some flies have shorter tempers than others. Researchers in the North Carolina Sate University genetics department have identified a suite of genes that affect aggression in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, pointing to new mechanisms that could contribute to abnormal aggres......overed what appears to be part of the pathway that tempers the production of stomata while studying a trio of genes that code for signaling receptors required for normal plant height. The scientists were working on a basic understanding of plant growth as part of U.S. Department of Energy and Japanese Scien...