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Fruit Fly



The common fruit fly is an amazing beast. Most of my cultures are commercial preparations from one of the various fly houses nationwide, but I have a few different local strains as well... one from my back yard, one from a nearby orchard, and one I started from a pair of fruit flies I captured in a local grocery store.

While most of my work is with rodents, I have a side stream of research using the fruit fly as a research model. I started this strand about 15 years ago because of the desire to have a complementary animal model that a) had a much shorter reproductive cycle, b) had a shorter life span, and c) was often easier to use while teaching undergraduate students interested in research, some basic techniques.

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