February 25, 2005
The Traveling Fruit-Fly Circus
Putting a box of fruit flies in the mail isn't as easy as shipping chocolates to your mother in Nebraska.
"We put adults onto fresh food one day, and then mail them out the next morning," says Kevin R. Cook, a co-director of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, which is affiliated with Indiana University. In transit, the females will lay eggs on the food. "By the time the culture reaches someone in another country," Mr. Cook says, "the adults will have died, and what will be left
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