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Drosophila: A Laboratory Handbook

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This manual covers three approaches to the field: analysis of neural development, recording and imaging activities in the nervous system, and analysis of behavior.
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Drosophila Neurobiology-Bing Zhang 2010 Based on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's long-running course, Drosophila Neurobiology: A Laboratory Manual offers detailed protocols and background material for researchers interested in using Drosophila as an experimental model for investigating the nervous system. This manual covers three approaches to the field: analysis of neural development, recording and imaging activities in the nervous system, and analysis of behavior. Techniques described include molecular, genetic, electrophysiological, imaging, behavioral and developmental methods.

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Analysis of genetic mosaics in developing and adult Drosophila tissues

TL;DR: This work has constructed a series of strains to facilitate the generation and analysis of clones of genetically distinct cells in developing and adult tissues of Drosophila, providing an unprecedented opportunity to perform systematic genetic screens for mutations affecting many biological processes.
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The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

Robert A. Holt, +126 more
- 04 Oct 2002 - 
TL;DR: Analysis of the PEST strain of A. gambiae revealed strong evidence for about 14,000 protein-encoding transcripts, and prominent expansions in specific families of proteins likely involved in cell adhesion and immunity were noted.
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Cytosine methylation and the ecology of intragenomic parasites

TL;DR: It has become increasingly difficult to hold that reversible promoter methylation is commonly involved in developmental gene control; instead, suppression of parasitic sequence elements appears to be the primary function of cytosine methylation, with crucial secondary roles in allele-specific gene expression as seen in X inactivation and genomic imprinting.
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Rates of Spontaneous Mutation

TL;DR: It is now possible to specify some of the evolutionary forces that shape these diverse mutation rates in broad groups of organisms.
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The effect of deleterious mutations on neutral molecular variation.

TL;DR: Observed reductions in molecular variation in low recombination genomic regions of sufficiently large size, for instance in the centromere-proximal regions of Drosophila autosomes or in highly selfing plant populations, may be partly due to background selection against deleterious mutations.
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