Introduction: Drosophila-A Model System for Developmental Biology.

Nicholas Tolwinski

doi:10.3390/jdb5030009

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Drosophila melanogaster, known colloquially as the fruit fly, remains one of the most commonly used model organisms for biomedical science.[...].

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Drosophila—A Model System for Developmental BiologyReceived: September 2017; Accepted: September 2017; Published: 20 September 2017Keywords: Drosophila; model organisms; development; geneticsDrosophila melanogaster, known colloquially as the fruit fly, remains one of the most commonly used model organisms for biomedical science
Any gene or even allele related to human disease can be studied in flies
As research budgets shrink in real terms, it is easy to overlook basic research in such an abstract and annoying animal as the fruit fly

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Drosophila—A Model System for Developmental BiologyReceived: September 2017; Accepted: September 2017; Published: 20 September 2017Drosophila melanogaster, known colloquially as the fruit fly, remains one of the most commonly used model organisms for biomedical science. 2017, 5, 9 an exon swapping approach [9]. These, in conjunction with CRISPR/Cas9 knockout/knockin and overexpression strategies [10], allow the inactivation, tagging, and overexpression of any gene in the genome within weeks of starting a project.

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