Drosophila as a Model Organism

Masamitsu Yamaguchi; Hideki Yoshida

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-0529-0_1

Drosophila as a Model Organism

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2018:1076:1-10. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-0529-0_1.

Authors

Masamitsu Yamaguchi¹, Hideki Yoshida²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan. myamaguc@kit.ac.jp.
² Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan.

PMID: 29951811
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-0529-0_1

Abstract

Drosophila melanogaster has been widely used in classical and modern genetics for more than 100 years. The history of the Drosophila model in the study of various aspects of life sciences will be summarized in this chapter. Furthermore, commonly used techniques and tools with Drosophila models will be briefly described, with a special emphasis on the advantages of Drosophila models in the study of various human diseases.

Keywords: Biology; Chromosome; Drosophila; GAL4-UAS; Genome; History.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Disease Models, Animal*
Drosophila melanogaster*
Humans