Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

Is it a fruit fly or drain fly hovering over the trash or the bowl of fruit? Or maybe a gnat drawn to an indoor plant? Spring weather in Houston makes homes and backyards inviting places for the bug ...

For more than 15 years, our mission has been to catalogue the neurons of the optic lobes — the regions beneath the fly’s compound eyes — and to develop genetic tools to study them.