Lords of the Fly Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life

Name: Lords of the Fly Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life
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ISBN: 9780226450636

ISBN-10: 0226450635

ISBN-13: 9780226450636

Edition: 1994

Authors: Robert E. Kohler

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The common fruit fly, Drosophila, has long been one of the most productive of all laboratory animals. From 1910 to 1940, the center of Drosophila culture in America was the school of Thomas Hunt Morgan and his students Alfred Sturtevant and Calvin Bridges. They first created "standard" flies through inbreeding and by organizing a network for exchanging stocks of flies that spread their practices around the world. In Lords of the Fly, Robert E. Kohler argues that fly laboratories are a special kind of ecological niche in which the wild fruit fly is transformed into an artificial animal with a distinctive natural history. He shows that the fly was essentially a laboratory tool whose…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/2/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



The Nature of Experimental Life



Crossing the Threshold



Constructing Drosophila



The Fly People



The Drosophila Exchange Network



Improvisations



Reconstructing Drosophila: Developmental Genetics



From Laboratory to Field: Evolutionary Genetics


Appendix


Abbreviations


Bibliography


Index