The unique scheme has been put together by Dr Andreas Prokop from the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester and John Roote from the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.
John Roote said, “In 1910 Thomas Hunt Morgan isolated the first Drosophila sex-linked mutation, white. Since then many thousands of research workers have realised the potential of the humble fruit fly.
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Image: Fruit fly
Credit: Nicolas Gompel
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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