Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

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Start date Mar 4, 2012
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In summary: In summary, this conversation consisted of various links to funny and cute animal pictures and gifs. The conversation also touched on the dangers of raising wild animals, the importance of having a sense of humor in certain areas of the forum, and an amusing owl meme.

Oct 7, 2024

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BillTre

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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.