A Database of Drosophila Genes & Genomes

 

Commentary

Drosophila melanogaster as a research tool

2006 marked the 100th year since the publication by W. E. Castle of two papers that arguably can be considered as marking the beginning of the use of Drosophila melanogaster as a research tool and model organism. In light of this fact FlyBase is starting a series of occasional features highlighting what we consider to be landmark papers and events in the first century of research using “the fly”. ...(more)