false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166544143m/13221.jpg 13221 2 <div>The common fruit fly, <i>Drosophila,</i> has long been one of the most productive of all laboratory animals. From 1910 to 1940, the center of <i>Drosophila</i> culture in America was the school of Thomas Hunt Morgan and his students Alfred Sturtevant and Calvin Bridges. They first created "standard" flies through inbreeding and by organizing a network for exchanging stocks of flies that spread their practices around the world.<br><br>In <i>Lords of the Fly,</i> Robert E. Kohler argues that fly laboratories are a special kind of ecological niche in which the wild fruit fly is transformed into an artificial animal with a distinctive natural history. He shows that the fly was essentially a laboratory tool whose startling productivity opened many new lines of genetic research. Kohler also explores the moral economy of the "Drosophilists": the rules for regulating access to research tools, allocating credit for achievements, and transferring authority from one generation of scientists to the next.<br><br>By closely examining the Drosophilists' culture and customs, Kohler reveals essential features of how experimental scientists do their work.</div> 15388 2 5 1994 Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life total:9|5:1|4:5|3:3|2:0|1:0| 9 34 18 4 0 0 false false Mon Oct 19 07:30:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 07:30:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 15:11:51 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 15:18:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 25 17:28:56 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 12:42:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 09:58:19 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 22:23:17 -0700 2009
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