Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

[BillTre]

Fly head shot above.

Most of the individual features (like hairs) you can see are affected b many different mutations. The big hairs have individual names and are found in almost all normal (wild type) individuals.
Each facet of the big eyes have 7 or 8 photo-receptors with different properties. They are assembled from embryonic cells in a sequence of interactions to make the the same facet structure over and over. Lots of mutants in those processes too.

Here's a little video of some of the pictures, microscope or SEMs (scanning electron micrographs) of Drosophila melanogaster (lab fruit fly) used in a new version of The Fly Book made for genetics researchers.

 

[dwarde]

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

Interesting office decorations. I wonder what they do there...

 

[weirdoguy]

Meet my doggo, Anthony

 

[jtbell]

"Now, where did that darn cat go?"

 

[OCR]

"Now, where did that darn cat go?"

Lol. . . that took a while.

 

[symbolipoint]

NOW I see it!
(post #2841)

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[BillTre]

Rarely seen form of Florida fauna spotted in a bar.

 

[DennisN]

An extremely cute hedgehog:

 

[berkeman]