Drosophila

ABSTRACT Evaluation of Monitoring for Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in the Field and Laboratory in South Dakota and Infestation of Drosophila suzukii in Raspberry Crops Bennur Agbaba 2016-2017 The spotted wing Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is an attacking pest of berries crops. Unlike most other Drosophila, this insect can oviposit into ripe and ripening berries, so that they make them unmarketable. D. suzukii is spreading quickly throughout the continental US

Abstract Drosophila melanogaster was used for this study for their fast reproduction cycles, fast regenerations, large amounts of offspring for each generation and their capability of living in a small limited space. The dominant or recessive genotype could be determining by the used of Mendelian genetic ratios for wild-type to mutant’s genes. The mutation that this study focuses on is the defects of the phenotypes in the common fruit fly, example; wing shape, wing sizes, body color and what the

Drosophila is an ideal model organism that is largely used for the biological research study for over the centuries. In history, there is much research relevant to Drosophila contribute to the understanding of human towards different fundamental biological phenomena. The first published research paper on Drosophila in 1910, “Sex limited inheritance in Drosophila” was written by Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan who was known as “father of Drosophila”. The theory of inheritance which was first proposed by Gregor

The F2 Drosophila produced from crossing the wild-type offspring of the parental cross wild-type males and no-winged females. The F2 generation consisted of 38 wild-type females and 35 wild-type males, totaling 73 Drosophila. There were also 16 no-winged females and 11 no-winged males, totaling 27 Drosophila. Therefore, the total number of Drosophila counted was 100. The phenotypic ratio was 3:1, wild-type: mutant. If the mutation were autosomal recessive the F2 generation’s hypothesized phenotypic

focused on are the body colors of the Drosophila melanogaster, which is the common fruit fly. The two different body color alleles are the wild type, tan body color, and the ebony type, black body color. Drosophila melanogaster was chosen for the experiment as it is the archetype for population genetics. Drosophila is a model organism for population genetics just as the house mouse has become a model organism (Powell, 1997). The benefits of using Drosophila in this experiment is that it has a short

The studies in Drosophila melanogaster have helped scientists to have better understand about genetic and scientifically discover the variety of human diseases from mutations. After observing under 50X magnification, the differences between the female and male unknown mutants 651 are that the shape of male’s pseudopupils are larger than female’s and the volume of bristles and hairs on male’s notum are greater than female. In addition, the larva of wild type is a little larger in length and width

Scientist use Drosophila melanogaster because they reproduce very rapidly and have shorter generations. These characteristic of being able to go through many generations in a short amount of time combined with its resemblance in behavior and development to a human made it a good candidateto use this organism to study genetics. The white (w) mutation was discovered by T.H. Morgan in his lab when he noticed a white eyed male among his long running stock of bright red D. melanogaster. Morgan was first

3: "Eyes in flies: An overview of the cinnabar gene and its relation to Huntington 's disease” Introduction The common fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is often regarded as the model organism for genetic testing due to many factors such as its short reproductive cycle, its similarities to humans, or the ease of tracking mutations in Drosophila melanogaster. The Drosophila melanogaster is used to model diseases such as Cancer, Diabetes, and Huntington’s Disease. By studying the changes in how the proteins

Introduction: General background information Drosophila melanogaster is a fruit fly. On average, they are about 3mm in length and prefer to live near spoiled fruit. They can be found on every continent of the world except for Antarctica. The Drosophila melanogaster egg us about .5mm long. It takes about one day after fertilization to develop and hatch into a worm-like larva. The larva eats and grown continuously, molting one day, two days, and four days after hatching. After two days as a third

Introduction: The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has key characteristics that include a short life cycle of about 30 days at 29 °C, the production of large numbers of offspring, and minimal lab maintenance that make it an excellent model organism to conduct biological experiments [1]. D. melanogaster is a complex multi-cellular organism that shares closely related behavioral and developmental features, along with a highly conserved genome, with humans which allows researchers to study parallel