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Experimental assessment of 3D-printed traps and chemical attractants for the collection of wild <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
2025-01-28
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Drosophila melanogaster , the common fruit fly, has been instrumental to our understanding of evolution, genetics and disease. There are benefits to studying these flies in the wild, including assessment of their naturally occurring microbiota. To facilitate efforts to catch wild D. melanogaster , we designed two fly traps and evaluated several candidate attractants. The first trap utilized a s...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4d8182eb-99d3-5e6f-9bb2-c8da77b9104c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.01.28.635319
