Tag Archives: genetic tools

How to make a recombinant fly line

By | June 14, 2021

Ease of doing genetic experiments makes Drosophila an excellent model system to study development and disease. The reasons for ease in setting up genetic crosses and its subsequent interpretation of results can be attributed to many efficient genetic tools, balancer chromosomes, innumerable genetic markers with clear visible phenotype, mutants for many genes and less number… Read More »

P-Element mutagenesis in Drosophila

By | April 17, 2021

There has been a long history of innovation and development of tools for gene discovery and genetic analysis in Drosophila melanogaster. This includes methods to induce mutations and to screen for those mutations that disrupt specific processes, methods to map mutations genetically and physically, and methods to clone and characterize genes at the molecular level.Modern… Read More »