September 2007 Essay from Current Biology about the varied lives of flies – including the three species that live in land crabs…
Posts Tagged as ‘flies’
20/04/2009
AWESOME FLY FACT
March 2007 Let’s say I killed 52 flies when I was in France, 11 years ago. What would have happened to those flies if I hadn’t been around? At 12 generations a year, let’s suppose that 132 generations would have been born, that half of the 52 flies were female, that half of all subsequent generations were female, and [...]
20/04/2009
BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY MEETS NEUROBIOLOGY
March 2007 Article from PLoS (open access, by definition) explaining that there is a trade-off between performance and energetic costs in electrical signals recorded from single photoreceptors in different fly species. Big blowflies can transmit more information than tiny Drosophila, but their photoreceptors use 10 times more energy to encode the same amount of informaiton. They conclude: “neuronal energy consumption [...]
