Generational research on drosophila sheds light on genetic mechanism of evolution
Monday, November 1, 2010 - 13:01
in Biology & Nature
Molly Burke doesnt study fruit flies because she loves tiny, winged crawlers that feast on rotting bananas. No, like generations of geneticists before her, the UC Irvine doctoral student uses the flies because "theyre easy to handle, theyre cheap, and they share a surprising number of genes with higher organisms."