http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/4900 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundations/articles/massive-decoding-effort-reveals-fruit-fly-dna <!--paging_filter--><p>An enormous effort to decode the <a title="" href="http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/">DNA</a> of one of the most important laboratory animals — the fruit fly — ended in success this week as a collaboration of researchers from 16 nations announced the sequencing of 10 fly species’ genomes.</p><p>The research allows the extraordinary side-by-side comparison of the DNA of 12 species of <a title="" href="http://www.ceolas.org/fly/intro.html">fruit flies</a> — two had already been decoded — as scientists search to understand the workings of individual genes and how those genes translate into specific physical characteristics.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundations/articles/massive-decoding-effort-reveals-fruit-fly-dna">read more</a></p> Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:13:51 -0500 404132862 7686 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu