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If you can ever pick up the book Fly Pushing in some library (or if you're rich just buy), it's a great read about drosophila handling and genetics that is fasc
by ramraj07 6y ago
If you can ever pick up the book Fly Pushing in some library (or if you're rich just buy), it's a great read about drosophila handling and genetics that is fascinating even if you don't intend to work with them. And they constantly bash worm people. The two are at odds with each other and it's an age-old battle. I'm constantly torn between the two organisms though. Some of the most "pleasurable" science I have done I did with these creatures.
- acomjean 6y agoHuh. I worked in fly the last 5 years and I’ve not noticed this (we work next to a worm lab). Fly are pretty low on the model species list (human, rat, mouse, fish), and with cell lines experimenting on human cells is becoming more prevalent. Fly researchers know they aren’t at the top and seem quite pleasant to work with. Still with orthologous gene mapping working with fly genetics still has lots of uses.