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Drosophila melanogaster

Monday 4 October 2004

Videos

- Drosophila development

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Websites

- BDGP-Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (The Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (BDGP) is a consortium of the Drosophila Genome Center)

References

- Wood W, Jacinto A. Drosophila melanogaster embryonic haemocytes: masters of multitasking. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2007 Jul;8(7):542-51. PMID: 17565363

- Vidal M, Cagan RL. Drosophila models for cancer research.
Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2006 Feb;16(1):10-6. PMID: 16359857

- Brumby AM, Richardson HE. Using Drosophila melanogaster to map human cancer pathways. Nat Rev Cancer. 2005 Aug;5(8):626-39. PMID: 16034367

- Peel AD, Chipman AD, Akam M. Arthropod segmentation: beyond the Drosophila paradigm. Nat Rev Genet. 2005 Dec;6(12):905-16. PMID: 16341071

- Bier E. Drosophila, the golden bug, emerges as a tool for human genetics. Nat Rev Genet. 2005 Jan;6(1):9-23. PMID: 15630418

- Pereanu W, Hartenstein V. Digital three-dimensional models of Drosophila development. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2004 Aug;14(4):382-91. PMID: 15261654