The wild-type, Oregon R strain of
Drosophila is the standard "red eye" fruit fly. This culture is suitable as a parental strain, used along with one of the mutant strains to construct a heterozygous F
1 generation and a subsequent F
2 generation for study.
- Short generation times
- Easy to raise
- Affordable
- Minimal storage space needed
- Sequenced genome
These wild-type flies are also appropriate for animal behavior studies.
