Tiny Fruit Flies Answer Big Scientific Questions
Channel: Masly Lab
Date: 2020-07-24

Understanding how evolutionary, genetic, and developmental processes give rise to the diversity of life is a major goal of biological research.  Research in the Masly Lab focuses on understanding the mechanisms that generate biological diversity, and addresses two fundamentally important questions about the natural world: how do organisms diverge from each other in form, and how are these differences patterned by their genes?  This video highlights ongoing research in the lab on these topics.

© 2020 Masly Lab Authors: Alexandra A. Barnard, J.P. Masly, Erica M. Nadolski, Chayton Vogele

Licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (unless otherwise specified).  For licensing information please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 

Special Thanks to:
Tom Buckman
Thomas Werner
John Jaenike
Olivia Nadolski
Grace Nadolski

Fly Images kindly provided by Thomas Werner and John Jaenike:

Werner, Thomas; Steenwinkel, Tessa; and Jaenike, John, "Drosophilids of the Midwest and Northeast" (2018). Open Access Books. 1.

***Check out Version 2 of "Drosophilids of the Midwest and Northeast" field guide, available online now at https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/oabooks/1 ***

and by J.P. Masly:

Masly, J.P. 170 years of "Lock-and-Key": Genital Morphology and Reproductive Isolation. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Article ID 247352, 2012.
https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/247352

Biodiversity Illustrations provided by openclipart.org.
(Creative Commons Zero 1.0 License)

The research described in this video was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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