This is a field course with lab work at the University.
Course is open to advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the biological sciences.
Students will enroll for 4 credits of ZOL 490. It does not cover airline fare, meals or spending money. In addition to Drosophila melanogaster , the common laboratory fly used in Genetics, also natural populations of drosophilid flies are important organisms for studies in Population Genetics, Ecology, climate change and biological invasion. Drosophila also contribute to theories of speciation and evolution. Dr. Gerhard Baechli of the Zoology Museum at the University of Z rich has agreed to teach a summer field course to MSU students on Swiss drosophilids.