Below we list links to sites with educational materials for using or teaching with Drosophila.
Information on working with Drosophila
- Experiments with Drosophila for Biology Courses - fly lab manual by S. C. Lakhotia and H. A. Ranganath
- Drosophila Workers Unite - fly lab manual from Michelle Markstein
- Introduction to Drosophila - fly lab webpage from Celeste Berg
- Carolina Biological's Drosophila Manual - fly lab manual
- Paper on virginator stocks - article on using "virginator" stocks to get large numbers of virgin females for lab classes from Dennis Venema
- GENETICS FlyBook - set of review articles on Drosophila research including some on techniques for, and history of, working with flies
Images of common Drosophila phenotypic markers
- Learning to Fly - nice poster of commonly used marker phenotypes
- Phenotype images from Kaufman lab - posters of wings, bristle, eye color and body color mutants from Stacy Holtzman and Thom Kaufman
- Phenotype images from Banco Moscas UNAM - fly marker images from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Patricia Ramos Morales & Rodolfo Felix Estrada)
- Phenotype images from CGS - fly marker images (drawings, many with micrographs) from the Classical Genetics Simulator site
- Digital archive of drawings by Edith Wallace - Drawings of Drosophila by Edith Wallace from the 1920's and 1930's can be found at Caltech's Image Archive (search using "Drosophila").
Images of mites in fly cultures
- Mite poster- example images of mites and mite eggs in fly cultures
Movies of developmental processes
- FlyMove - a source of information, images, and movies on various fly developmental processes from Christian Klämbt and colleagues
- Fly Morph-O-Genesis - movies of fly embryogenesis from Thom Kaufman, Rudi Turner and colleagues at the Society of Developmental Biology site (embryonic stills can be found here along with SEMs of wild type and mutant fly heads - scanning electron micrographs from Rudi Turner).
Teaching with Drosophila
- droso4schools - from the Manchester Fly Facility
- Drosophila dihybrid cross lab - from Houston Community College
- Classic Genetic Simulator - do crosses on your computer
Teaching science
- CourseSource - an open access journal that publishes resources for teaching undergraduate science
- Genetics Society of America resources - labs, classes and other resources for teaching biology (some using Drosophila)
- Society for Developmental Biology resources - links to educational resources
Cheat/crib sheets
- Cheat sheets - a list of cheat sheets (aka crib sheets) from the BDSC that may be useful for both experienced and inexperienced fly workers
Links to pages with more resources
- FlyBase Wiki - A list of online Drosophila resources from FlyBase
- FlyBase External Resources Page
- Flies and the Public - A list of resources for public education from FlyBase
- Interactive Fly - A guide to Drosophila genes, pathways and more plus links to more Drosophila resources from Tom Brody
Links to historical data
- Calvin Bridge papers/notebooks - a collection of notebooks/manuscripts from Calvin Bridges hosted at the American Philosophical Society
- Wild-type/inbred stock data - a file compiled by FlyBase with information on wild-type and inbred stocks (including when and where many stocks were originally collected)