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Flightless Fruit Fly Kit

FlightlessFruit Fly

Easy to handle-no worries about escaping flies
Characteristics similar to wild varieties
Wing structure and function apparent

Many teachers are hesitant to use Drosophila in their classrooms because of the problems typically associated with them, from lost flies to difficult anesthesia to messy media. We develop flightless fruit fly products to eliminate worries over these issues, while preserving the elements that make the flies such idela subjects of study.

Our Flightless Fruit Fly Kit carries you and your students through the typical scoring, breeding, and chi-square Drosophila exercises without the hassle of escaped flies. The Drosophila specimens used in this kit have been specially bred so their wings are too short to sustain flight, making them very easy to handle. The wing morphology is otherwise identical to wild-type Drosophila, enabling you to study wing structure and function, unlike other flightless varieties of the flies.

Intermediate - Easy to perform; requires some background knowledge.

Here is an innovative approach to introducing students to the exceptional model organism, Drosophila melanogaster. Losing flies has always been a problem when working with Drosophila, especially for the novice.
Our Flightless Fruit Fly Kit was developed with this problem in mind. It uses flightless strains containing the miniature mutation. These flies have wings too small to sustain flight, making them easier to handle and study.
This kit covers the basic patterns of heredity using various D. melanogaster miniature mutations. Materials are sufficient for a class of 32 students working in 8 groups of 4 each.
Note: Kit contains coupon for prepaid delivery of live materials.
Each kit includes vials containing the following parent generations: (2) miniature, (2) sepia miniature, (2) apterous miniature, (2) white miniature. Students will perform various crosses using the parental flies to produce the F1 generation.