The rat findings have been replicated many times and extended to creatures ranging from yeast to fruit flies, worms, fish, spiders, mice and hamsters.

小白鼠身上的试验已经被重复了很多次，并扩展到从酵母到果蝇、蠕虫、鱼、蜘蛛、老鼠和仓鼠等各种生物。

Fruit Flies Love Alcohol!

果蝇喜欢酒精！

New studies on fruit flies give us good answers.

对果蝇的新研究给了我们不错的答案。

Cause: Mediterranean fruit flies in the countries and regions.

原因：属地中海实蝇发生国家和地区。

The team's latest work draws not on human subjects, but on fruit flies.

这个研究团队最新的研究不是在人类身上进行的，而是果蝇。

They found that starving fruit flies spent more time awake than satiated flies did.

他们发现，饥饿的果蝇比吃饱的果蝇清醒的时间长。

Agricultural scientists have also looked at controlling fruit flies with parasitic wasps.

农业学家也考虑过用寄生蜂来控制果蝇。

A new laboratory study on fruit flies may lead to a new way of looking at social behavior.

一项对果蝇的实验室研究可能会让人们以一种新的方式来看待社交行为。

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。

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。

This belief was upheld by scientific studies of short-lived creatures ranging from rats to fruit flies.

从鼠类到实蝇的短寿命生物科学研究支持这一观点。 但通过对比人类与其他灵长类动物的首个多种群衰老形式后发现，人类的衰老速度与他无异。

This makes them more efficient than swallowtail butterflies (3.6), fruit flies (1.8) and bumble bees (2.5).

他比凤蝶（3.6），果蝇（1.8）及大黄蜂（2.5）更为高效。

Previously, scientists have used frog eggs to study the olfactory receptors of moths, honeybees and fruit flies.

在此之前，科学家们已经利用青蛙卵研究了飞蛾、蜜蜂和果蝇的嗅觉感受器。

Mangoes in Africa, as elsewhere, often fall prey to fruit flies, which destroy about 40% of the continent's crop.

非洲的芒果和世界各地一样经常会变成果蝇的盘中餐。 这些果蝇大概可以毁掉大路上40%的农作物。

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。

In the May 29th issue of Cell, scientists report discovering a gene that controls fruit flies' sensitivity to ethanol.

在预期于5月29日出版的《细胞》杂志上，科学家将报告一种新基因的发现，这种基因能够让果蝇远离酒精。

Laboratory research has shown that altering single genes can extended the lifespan of species of worms and fruit flies.

实验室研究发现：改变单个基因就能延长蠕虫和果蝇的寿命。

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。

Most of our knowledge about how animal species age comes from studies on short-lived species such as fruit flies and mice.

我们对动物衰老的认识大多源于对果蝇、小鼠等短命动物的研究。

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。

But researchers at Washington University bred "short-sleeping fruit flies" down 90 generations so that they would act like insomniacs.

但是华盛顿大学的研究者们培养出来一种“短睡眠果蝇”，已经繁殖90代了，这些果蝇的行为都像失眠症患者。

But although researchers have had some success in fruit flies, nobody has been able to get a gene drive system going in mosquitoes.

尽管研究人员在果蝇中取得了一定成功，并没有人得到蚊子中进行的基因驱动系统。

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。

In contrast, studies on dogs and cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, zebra fish, fruit flies and other animals have remained about the same.

相比而言对狗和猫、兔子、几内亚猪斑马鱼、果蝇及其他动物研究的数目基本保持不变。

To investigate, her team tempted local red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) with two sets of fruit flies held in clear tubes.

克劳迪娅·犹勒的小组实验研究了蝾螈的识数能力，实验中，当地的红背蝾螈(Plethodon cinereus)面对两组装有果蝇的透明管子的引诱。

Fruit flies from the same species differ in the number of bristles on their bellies; stalk-eyed flies differ in the lengths of their eye stalks.

同一种类的果蝇腹部的刚毛数量不等，杆状眼蝇的杆状眼长度不等。

The research in Yuval's laboratory at the Department of Entomology focuses on improving this technique, as applied to fruit flies and mosquitoes.

这项在尤瓦教授位于昆虫系(Departmentof Entomology)的实验室里进行的研究关注于如何改进这项技术，并应用到果蝇和蚊子上。

While there isn't a specific sleep gene, scientists studying the sleep habits of fruit flies have found evidence suggesting a strong genetic component.

尽管并不存在一个专门的睡眠基因，研究果蝇睡眠习惯的科学家们已经找到证据，证实存在一个强壮的遗传成分。

Tadeusz Kawecki and his colleagues at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland have measured the effects of improved learning on the lives of fruit flies.

瑞士Fribourg大学的Tadeusz Kawecki及其同事检测了学习能力的提高对果蝇寿命的影响。