Okazaki, Japan – Decades of studies on Drosophila vision have revealed multiple components required for the signaling events upon light stimulation. Light first turns on the photosensitive rhodopsin ...

Drosophila phototransduction has served as a model system for elucidating the molecular basis of sensory signal processing. In the fruitfly’s photoreceptors, light is captured by rhodopsin and ...

Wing dimorphism is a phenomenon of phenotypic plasticity in aphid dispersal. However, the signal transduction for perceiving environmental cues (e.g., crowding) and the regulation mechanism remain ...