[Noisebridge-discuss] Fruit flys and YOU!

[Meredith L. Patterson]

Praveen Sinha wrote:
> On 10/30/08, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net>
>>> noisebridge for homebrew evolution experiments...
>> As {the token, a} Vegan, I'd like to express my displeasure at the idea
>> of any kind of animal experimentation. Please don't. :-)
>>
> 
> Don't worry, I'm actually against animal experimentation too (although
> I did do a lot of fruit fly experiments in college) and sort of ruled
> it out in my head in terms of cost/benefit once I sent the email
> off...

How does one sex fruit flies, anyway? Do they bother to keep them
separate in labs? I'm guessing there are separate X/Y traits, but I
haven't done the GenBank query to check yet.

--mlp, inquiring minds