Fly is the first international peer-reviewed journal to focus on Drosophila research. Fly covers a broad range of biological sub-disciplines, ranging from developmental biology and organogenesis to sensory neurobiology, circadian rhythm and learning and memory, to sex determination, evolutionary biology and speciation. We strive to become the “to go” resource for every researcher working with Drosophila by providing a forum where the specific interests of the Drosophila community can be discussed. With the advance of molecular technologies that enable researchers to manipulate genes and their functions in many other organisms, Fly is now also publishing papers that use other insect model systems used to investigate important biological questions. Fly offers a variety of papers, including Original Research Articles, Methods and Technical Advances, Brief Communications, Reviews and Meeting Reports. In addition, Fly also features two unconventional types of contributions, Counterpoints and Extra View articles. Counterpoints are opinion pieces that critically discuss controversial papers questioning current paradigms, whether justified or not. Extra View articles, which generally are solicited by Fly editors, provide authors of important forthcoming papers published elsewhere an opportunity to expand on their original findings and discuss the broader impact of their discovery. Extra View authors are strongly encouraged to complement their published observations with additional data not included in the original paper or acquired subsequently.

Fly是第一本專注于果蠅研究的國際同行評審期刊。 Fly涵蓋了廣泛的生物學學科，從發育生物學和器官發生到感覺神經生物學，晝夜節律和學習記憶，到性別決定，進化生物學和物種形成。我們致力于通過提供一個可以討論果蠅社區特定利益的論壇，成為每個研究果蠅的研究人員的“前進”資源。隨著分子技術的進步，研究人員可以在許多其他生物體中操縱基因及其功能，Fly現在也發表了使用其他昆蟲模型系統來研究重要生物學問題的論文。Fly提供各種論文，包括原創研究論文，方法和技術進步，簡要通訊，評論和會議報告。此外，Fly還提供兩種非常規類型的貢獻，Counterpoints和Extra View文章。對立點是批評性討論有爭議的論文的觀點，無論是否合理。 Extra View文章通常由Fly編輯征集，為其他地方發表的重要即將發表的論文的作者提供了擴展其原始發現并討論其發現的更廣泛影響的機會。強烈建議Extra View作者使用未包含在原始論文中或隨后獲得的其他數據來補充他們發布的觀察結果。