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…with the control obtained from years of research it is fairly easy to breed a fruit fly with curled wings. It can live a normal life when it is fed. Researchers use it as a marker-fly. It can tell them if a certain chromosome has passed on to offspring. And conveniently it cannot fly. It may be bought at pet-shops for feeding reptiles or fish…

a series of anatomical close-ups by wim klerkx

m / 07-09-2010 08:37 - tags: ,  

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