Fly Pushing: The Theory and Practice of Drosophila Genetics

by Ralph J. Greenspan

The practicalities of "fly pushing" an affectionate term for doing genetic experiments and crosses with Drosophila is presented here for those who want to use fly genetics in their work, but have heretofore been unable to gain access to the "large folklore of classical genetic tools lurking somewhere in the fly field" (from the introduction). The practicalities of making crosses, isolating variants, mapping genes, constructing specific genotypes, and analyzing mutations are explained, with some theory thrown in to make the techniques intelligible. Requires only an elementary (undergraduate course level) knowledge of genetics. Spiral wire bound, with a cloth cover. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Genres: Science, School, Genetics

Spiral-bound

Published March 1, 1997

Reviews

[Lake Valentine]

Did my absolute best to read through this as someone new to working with flies. There is so much I did not understand and I will probably have to read through and reference this several times

[Rohit · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book for students, researchers started working on Drosophila and intended to do some fly work. No doubt book is collection of good techniques and their usage but this book is not good for people don't have any knowledge about this system before. This is still a beginners book but just at another level. I will recommend to read some basic concepts and phenomenons from another books or articles [like (Roote and Prokop 2013)] before start reading this.