Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center

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The Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center collects, curates, maintains and distributes Drosophila melanogaster strains for research and education.

https://bdsc.indiana.edu/

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40 years ago today, the BDSC made its 1st shipment. To celebrate, Trudy Kaufman, who packed the 1st shipment, boxed up the same kinds of flies for John Roote at Cambridge, who placed the 1st order. Watch for pics of the arrival next week. We’ve shipped 4,882,378 vials total. That’s a lot of flies!

Trudy Kaufman packing flies to send to John Roote.
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As you may know, NIH abruptly terminated funding to FlyBase curators based in the United Kingdom. Please help us retain these curators and thereby enable ongoing curation of bibliographic, genetic and phenotypic data by contributing annually (tinyurl.com/4jw65mbb). Thank you.
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