果蝇在家中招人讨厌，但却是一个历史悠久的实验对象。通过研究果蝇，科学家们得以揭开胚胎发育的秘密。
Studying the fruit fly, a household nuisance but a time-honored experimental subject, has enabled the secrets of how embryos develop to begin to be unraveled by scientists.
农业学家也考虑过用寄生蜂来控制果蝇。
Agricultural scientists have also looked at controlling fruit flies with parasitic wasps.
科学家们发现两种抗癌药(这两种抗癌药物也能抑制EGF)使“豪饮”的果蝇更加“头晕”- - -人和果蝇对这种感觉都感到不舒服。
And the scientists found that two anticancer drugs, which also inhibit EGF, make boozing flies more woozy-a feeling that's as unpleasant for flies as it is for people.
十多年以来，科学家已经了解到，低卡路里的饮食能够延长很多生物的寿命，包括酵母菌、果蝇、猴子，可能还包括人类。
For more than a decade, scientists have known that a low-calorie diet lengthens the lives of many organisms, including yeast, fruit flies, monkeys, and perhaps humans.
同时，其他科学家已经在一组神经元中识别出了一个受体，这个受体能使果蝇闻到二氧化碳，二氧化碳是一顿美味的活酵母呈现的标志。
In the meantime, other scientists had identified a receptor in a group of neurons that enable fruit flies to smell carbon dioxide, which signals the presence of a good meal of tasty yeast.
同时，其他科学家已经在一组神经元中识别出了一个受体，这个受体能使果蝇闻到二氧化碳，二氧化碳是一顿美味的活酵母呈现的标志。
In the meantime, other scientists had identified a receptor in a group of neurons that enablefruit flies to smell carbon dioxide, which signals the presence of a good mealof tasty yeast.
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。
While there isn't a specific sleep gene, scientists studying the sleep habits of fruit flies have found evidence suggesting a strong genetic component.
科学家以繁殖能力较强的果蝇作为实验对象，可以验证这一新的理论。
Conducting their experiments on the rapidly-reproducing fruit fly, the scientists were able to test this new theory.
为了做这项研究，科学家们对比了以下三组雄性果蝇的基因表达谱，分别是向雌性求爱的、只与雄性接触的和不与其他任何果蝇接触的三组雄性果蝇。
To make this discovery, the scientists compared gene expression profiles in males that courted females, males that interacted with other males, and males that did not interact with other flies.
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。
In the May 29th issue of Cell, scientists report discovering a gene that controls fruit flies' sensitivity to ethanol.
通常我们认为：“相对于醋，你能捉到更多沾着蜂蜜的果蝇”，而生物学家棱镜小姐则报道说已经证明了该理论有误。
The biologist known as MissPrism reports having disproved the theory that "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar".
一位同事就果蝇神经细胞的不同分工做了报告，其中指出果蝇神经细胞的分工与分布式计算相似，这一发现让计算机生物学家Ziv Bar - Joseph着实感到吃惊。
A colleague's presentation on how nerve cells in fruit flies take on different jobs struck computational biologist Ziv Bar-Joseph as being very similar to a distributed computing problem.
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。
Previously, scientists have used frog eggs to study the olfactory receptors of moths, honeybees and fruit flies.
从那以后，科学家们已对许多深层同源性的案例有了更为详细的认识。 比如卡洛尔博士和他的同事们最近就弄清楚了果蝇翅膀上的斑点是如何通过模块功能置换而进化出来的。
Dr. Carroll and his colleagues, for example, recently figured out how the spots on a fly’s wing evolved through rewiring modules.
托诺尼和越来越多的科学家们认为，睡眠- - -不仅仅是在果蝇身上，而且在高级哺乳动物身上- - -也可能起到这种释放压力的作用。
Tononi and a growing number of other scientists believe that sleep - not just in flies but also in higher-order mammals - may perform such a pressure-releasing role.
丰富的果蝇种类，为科学家进行遗传学、发育生物学等科学研究提供了良好的实验动物模型。
The plentiful types of the drosophila's can provide favorable experimental animal models for scientists who study on the genetics and the developmental biology.
丰富的果蝇种类，为科学家进行遗传学、发育生物学等科学研究提供了良好的实验动物模型。
The plentiful types of the drosophila's can provide favorable experimental animal models for scientists who study on the genetics and the developmental biology.
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