More recently, we have developed and validated a strategy that leverages Drosophila genetics to enhance the power of human genetic studies (Shulman et al. 2011). Despite the promise of genome-wide ...

Haldane's Rule and Sex Chromosomes The dominance and faster-male models are well supported in Drosophila and, to some extent, in mammals. Support for these models doesn't rule out the prospect ...

A particularly useful model organism is Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly. This fly has become the main invertebrate model used to study developmental genetics. It has been ...

Confirming the chromosome theory of inheritance Though ... with a distinct mutation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. During the early years of the twentieth century, fruit flies were ...

Thanks to the flies, we know today that radioactivity can cause genetic mutations and breaks in chromosomes. A further milestone in the scientific career of Drosophila was the awarding of the Nobel ...

A new study published in Genetics in Medicine identifies a novel disease-associated gene, GPKOW, that plays an important role ...

We have been working on a genetic map to identify essential genes in the centric heterochromatin of Drosophila chromosome 3. The task requires special genetic methods--generating and characterizing ...