A comparison between the common house fly, Musca domestica, and the Oriental latrine fly, Chrysomya megacephala, was assessed for their potential as carriers of bacteria in urban areas of Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. C. megacephala was significantly more likely to carry bacterial species than M. domestica; however, no significant difference was found between the number of positive ma...

The hobo transposable element from Drosophila melanogaster was found to be capable of excision, resulting in donor sites unlike those reported for any other transposable element currently known in animals. These empty sites most closely resemble those left by the transposable elements Ac and Tam3 in Zea mays and Antirrhinum majus, respectively. Like Ac and Tam3, the hobo element was found to fu...

WHO menyatakan diare sebagai ancaman kesehatan. Di Indonesia, hingga saat ini masih menjadi masalah kesehatan masyarakat. Prevalensi di Provinsi Lampung tahun 2018 sebesar 4,51% menyebar setiap kabupaten / kota. Peningkatan penyakit terjadi karena mengkonsumsi makanan yang tercemar oleh mikroorganisme melalui perantara lalat. Hingga belum ada penelitian dilakukan untuk menguji efektifitas berba...

Three natural populations of house fly Musca domestica were analyzed for eight genetic loci by means of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE). Allozyme analysis at eight loci scores nineteen putative alleles. The amount of mean observed heterozygosity (Ho) was greater for Varanasi population than the other two populations studied. Nei’s genetic identity (I) and distance (D) values reveal th...

Comparative measurements are presented of the sequence complexity of the RNA stored in the eggs of two dipteran flies, Musca domestica and Drosophila melanogaster. The genome of Musca is about five times the size of the Drosophila genome and contains about 3.6 times as much single-copy sequence. As shown earlier, the interspersion of repetitive and single-copy sequence is of the short-period fo...

Griff ER, Kane TC. A housefly sensory motor integration laboratory. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 106–110, 2010; doi:10.1152/ advan.00068.2009.—Insects have many interesting behaviors that can be observed in an introductory biology laboratory setting. In the present article, we describe several reflexes using the housefly Musca domestica that can be used to introduce students to sensory and motor respon...