The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has emerged as a powerful model organism for studying the interactions between gut microbiota and host physiology. Research has shown that the gut ...

The Colombani Andersen lab at the section of Cell & Neurobiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen uses the fruit fly, Drosophila, to study the mechanisms that regulate gut plasticity.

“We know that there are a lot of peptides and hormones in the gut that are released and their primary role is to affect physiology and behavior,” said Meet Zandawala, a Drosophila neuroendocrinologist ...

The researchers began to map the locations of Ance in tissues throughout the body of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster using an antibody that labels the protein with Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP ...