Consider the Fruit Fly
Modern genetics would not be possible without the humble fruit fly.
In college, I worked briefly in a fruit-fly lab, where I spent most of my time just keeping different fly strains alive. It was not difficult—as anyone with a fruit-fly infestation can tell you—but the repetitive work imprinted itself on my brain. Even today, the way my slightly chubby white cat scrunches when he walks resembles nothing more to me than a third instar fly larva, swollen and ready to metamorphose.
This is to say that I came to , a new book about fruit-fly research, with perhaps some.
