The Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel
Mackay, Richards et al., Nature
North Carolina State University's Trudy Mackay and her colleagues present the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel, "a community resource for analysis of population genomics and quantitative traits."
It's Nice to Think of Ourselves as Moving Colonies
May 22, 2008
An article in the New York Times talks about the fact that at any given moment, there are 1 million bacteria in the crook of your elbow. With the Human Microbiome Project underway, scientists are sequencing -- and learning -- about the hoards of beneficial bacteria that live in people.
In Science's early edition, Wash U's Ruth Ley looked at 60 species in the first-ever comparison of bacterial gut communities across mammals. "Her analysis found that these communities have co-evolved with their hosts and their members are strongly influenced by both diet and evolutionary history," says this post at Not Exactly Rocket Science.