Morgan's legacy: fruit flies and the functional annotation of conserved genes.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
In 1915, "The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity" was published by four prominent Drosophila geneticists. They discovered that genes form linkage groups on chromosomes inherited in a Mendelian fashion and laid the genetic foundation that promoted Drosophila as a model organism. Flies continue to offer great opportunities, including studies in the field of functional genomics.
Medical subject headings
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Genetics