If you're suffering from a sleep disorder, then you'll want to know the kind of research that...
Molecular geneticist Joanna Chiu at work in her lab at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Molecular geneticist Joanna Chiu at work in her lab at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at
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Roger Vargas is in the thick of fruit-fly research and he probably wishes those insects would thin...
Roger Vargas
RESEARCH ENTOMOLOGIST Roger Vargas of the USDA-ARS will speak from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 9 at the University of Caifornia, Davis. His topic: fruit flies. The lecture is from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in 1022 Life Sciences Addition, corner of Hutchison and Kleiber Hall drives.
Fruit Fly
ORIENTAL FRUIT FLY (Bactrocera dorsalis) laying eggs; she's drilling her ovipositor into the skin of a papaya. (Photo by Scott Bauer, USDA/ARS)
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at
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The female silkworm moth releases a sex pheromone, bombykol, that's very enticing to the male. He...
Mulberry Tree
CHEMICAL ECOLOGISTS professor Walter Leal (left) and postdoctoral scholar Zain Syed inspect a mulberry tree, planted on the Briggs Hall lawn, UC Davis, in memory of professor Susumu Maeda. The scientists use the tree to rear silkworm moths for their studies on insect olfaction. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Drosophila Head
DROSOPHILA HEAD--A scanning electronic micrograph (SEM) of the fruit fly head, highlighting a pair of antennae endowed with highly sensitive sensilla for the detection of bombykol, a sex pheromone identified from the silkworm more than 50 years ago. (SEM Courtesy of Walter Leal lab)
Scent of a Female
A FEMALE SILKWORM (left) releases a sex pheromone from an extruded gland in the abdominal tip. A male moth (right) detects the pheromone (bombykol) remotely with neurons housed in antennal sensilla. He responds immediately by wing fanning and moving in a zigzag pattern toward the calling female. (Photo by Samuel Woo, UC Davis).
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at
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