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Tweet Here’s the cover picture from the February 2009 issue of Genetics, which just arrived in my office. I think this counts as art! The caption is Adult heads of Drosophila melanogaster mass-fractionated for RNA extraction. Or, to paraphrase Edmund Spenser, … Continue reading
Tweet The latest in the ongoing saga of our fly shipment from the USA is that our packet of flies finally made it to the lab. They’ve been in transit for exactly three weeks*, and of course kept in in … Continue reading
Tweet I have been conducting research using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster since I started my PhD in 1982. In that time I have imported countless consignments of fly strains through the post and by courier (such as Federal Express). … Continue reading
Tweet It’s all got rather Kafka-esque as I try to resolve the ongoing Drosophila importation crisis! It transpires that the people who have decided that importation of Drosophila should be covered by legislation aimed quite properly at preventing the import … Continue reading
Tweet Of the many questions in evolutionary biology, the genetic basis of reproductive isolation between species and subspecies is a pretty hot topic. Drosophila pseudoobscura is a new world Drosophila species that has been used in evolutionary biology studies for … Continue reading
