A closer look at the common fruit fly might surprise you.

This was originally hosted on my Micrographia subchannel, but I've decided to pause that channel for now and just host the episodes here. Enjoy!

CONSIDER SUBSCRIBING
☕Buy me a coffee? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Breaking...
Or Patreon if that's your jam:   / breakingtaps  
Twitter:   / breakingtaps  
Discord:   / discord  

✅ Sources
• Kohler, Robert E. "Drosophila: A life in the laboratory." Journal of the History of Biology (1993): 281310. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4331265
• Stephenson, R., & Metcalfe, N. (2013). Drosophila melanogaster: a fly through its history and current use. The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 43(1), 70–75. doi:10.4997/jrcpe.2013.116 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23516...
• Lebreton, Sébastien, et al. "Dietary glucose regulates yeast consumption in adult Drosophila males." Frontiers in physiology 5 (2014): 504. doi:10.3389/fphys.2014.00504 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
• Markow, T. A. (2015). The secret lives of Drosophila flies. eLife, 4. doi:10.7554/elife.06793 https://elifesciences.org/articles/06793
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosoph...

Timeline