Project name: Drosophila mauritiana

Description: The fruit fly Drosophila mauritiana is an organism used in the study of transposons, which are naturally occurring genetic elements capable of moving from one chromosomal location to another. The mariner element from D. mauritiana has been shown to function as a transposon in a diverse organism, the zebrafish, distinguishing itself as a model organism in a powerful system under study. Work is currently underway to use the fruit fly mariner elements to tag genes in the zebrafish and screen for transcriptionally active regions of the genome.

Last updated: 2004-07-30