Under an electron microscope, the ordinary fruit fly becomes unrecognizable — its eyes turn into crystalline domes, its hairs into forests, and its mouthparts into complex machinery. Tropical Storm ...

A little leg may reveal something big about how closely related insect species can drastically differ in body shape, according to a new study. The team imaged live cells of fruit flies in the last ...

Most of the volume of epithelial cell bodies containing nuclei are aligned as a monolayer on the apical (upper) side. They extend pillarlike cell processes in a basal (downward) direction. At the ...