Abstract
Tiny little insects hovering on the waste basket or fruit peals are common sites in most homes. They are almost omnipresent, and arrive within minutes of putting a ripe fruit in kitchen. For most people, these fruit flies may be an annoying pestilence, although not as bothersome as the ubiquitous house flies. Therefore, as a young student embarking on my research career, I was surprised to know that people studying these tiny fruit flies have made some of the most profound impacts in modern biology. The endeavour started neatly a hundred years back during the sabbatical visit of a Caltech faculty, Thomas Hunt Morgan, to the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole in Massachusetts, USA.
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