The anatomy of a Fruit Fly

Recently the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried (near Germany) preformed a series of tests to try and understand the amazing flight of a common fruit fly. With the fruit flies big bodies and tiny wings they are still able to propel themselves and flap their wings at a frequency of 200 hertz. This large frequency is possible because of a particular gene called splat. Splat aids in the generation of ultra fast super muscles and is responsible for the amazing flight of a fruit fly. Without this particular gene the fruit flies would be flightless.

These results of how splat interacts with the fruit flies genome can help scientists and researchers gain more insight on how the splat gene may interact with in the human body. Since splat is built by the human body cardiac muscle.

This is a summary of an article found on sciencedaily.com