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Why fruit flies?
Drosophila melanogaster is:
• used to study complex biological processes, including many directly relevant to human health and disease
• a versatile and elegant model organism with excellent genetic manipulability, ease of culture, and low cost
• unmatched for its genetic technologies enabling experiments that are difficult to do in other organisms
Why the BDSC?
The BDSC is the largest and most comprehensive collection of Drosophila strains in the world. As a centralized resource, we enable researchers to focus on discovery by providing:
• a wide variety of sophisticated genetic tools
• a common resource to improve scientific rigor and reproducibility
• stable maintenance of strains with effective quality control and the benefits of economies of scale
New Stocks - Super Recombination for combining transgenes
The Super Recombinase (SuRe) system, from the Schnitzer lab, enables two to many insertions in the same attP landing site to be recombined onto the same chromosome using simple genetic crosses. See our SuRe page for more details.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2026
Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the order that would normally be processed on Monday, January 19 will instead be processed on Tuesday, January 20. See more . . .
The BDSC will suspend shipping activities the second half of December. Learn more...
The limestone fly carving pictured above was created by Amy Brier - http://www.amybrier.com.
