Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center: Indiana University Bloomington

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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

schematic for recombining two insertions onto the same chromosome via attP/attB sites using the SuRe system

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.