Stephen W. Paddock - Digital Image Gallery
Fruit Fly Imaginal Disc - Third Instar Wing
Presented above is a fluorescence digital image of a Drosophila third instar wing imaginal disc labeled with apterous (a wingless mutant) in blue, vestigial (a small winged mutant) in red and Cubitus interruptus (Ci) in green. This image won 18th place in the Nikon Small World competition in 1997.
Research in the area of genetics has frequently focused on the various mutations common to the fruit fly. Defects in eye and limb formations have been particularly well documented.
