Experiments with Drosophila for Biology Courses 

This is a fully open access e-book that meets the need for development of new methods and paradigms for laboratory experiments at under- and post-graduate levels so that the young students and future academics can experience ‘life’.

Besides a primer for handling the fruit fly, the book includes 85 laboratory protocols written in a lab manual mode with step-wise instructions, illustrations, analytical questions, references to published material and with appropriate cross-references to other chapters in the book. The exercises cover, besides genetics and cytogenetics, experiments in developmental biology, cell and molecular biology, cancer biology, anatomy, physiology, immunology, neurobiology, behavioural biology, evolution, systematics, field studies, microbiology,  bioinformatics etc. The lab protocols are prepared keeping in view the limited facilities available in most classrooms. A pictorial history of Drosophila research and a partial list of fly researchers in India are also part of the book.

Teachers, researchers and students (under- and post-graduate) will find this green open access online book a valuable asset

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