Article
Germline transformation of the stalk-eyed fly, Teleopsis dalmanni.
BMC molecular biology - 16 Nov 2010
Warren Ian A, Fowler Kevin, Smith Hazel
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Stalk-eyed flies of the family Diopsidae have proven to be an excellent model organism for studying the evolution of ornamental sexual traits. In diopsid flies the eyes and antennae are borne at the end of lateral head projections called 'eye-stalks'. Eyespan, the distance between the eyes, and the degree of sexual dimorphism in eyespan vary considerably between species and several sexually dimorphic...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Diptera
- Female
- Genes, Insect
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Transformation, Genetic
- Transgenes