Abstract
Photogenic Flies—A review of Chyb and Gompel's Atlas of Drosophila Morphology: Wild-type and Classical Mutants
Highlights
Chyb and Gompel’s recently published Atlas of Drosophila Morphology: Wildtype and Classical Mutants (Academic Press) provides a timely and much-needed twenty-first century update to the classic line of mutant reference handbooks for Drosophila researchers
Instead of providing a comprehensive catalogue, the Atlas focuses on 70 of the most common marker mutations still in use today at an entirely new level of resolution made possible though the power of digital photography
The technical and aesthetic perfection of the images in the Atlas was achieved by using a custom-built fly photo studio equipped with light-emitting diodes, taking multiple images at different focal planes and assembling them together in imaging software. These images achieve a clarity and crispness that authentically reproduces the direct view of flies under the dissection microscope, far surpassing the utility of previous black-and-white line drawings, and provide researchers with an entirely new dimension of illustration—color— that is so important for many eye and body markers, yet so difficult to describe in words
Summary
Chyb and Gompel’s recently published Atlas of Drosophila Morphology: Wildtype and Classical Mutants (Academic Press) provides a timely and much-needed twenty-first century update to the classic line of mutant reference handbooks for Drosophila researchers. Instead of providing a comprehensive catalogue, the Atlas focuses on 70 of the most common marker mutations still in use today at an entirely new level of resolution made possible though the power of digital photography.
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