#  Dan Lindsley, co-author of "red book," a much-used fly research resource, has died 

 





June 25, 2018

 

 

The fly community has lost [Dan Lindsley](https://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/dlindsley). Lindsley was a *Drosophila* researcher and co-author with Georgianna Zimm of the "red book," *The Genome of Drosophila melanogaster*. Lindsley was in his 90s. Lindsley trained at CalTech with Alfred Sturtevant and retired in 1991 from the University of California San Diego. You can read more about Lindsley's career [here](https://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/dlindsley). The Genetics Society of America paid tribute to Lindsley in a [series of tweets](https://twitter.com/GeneticsGSA/status/1011324195169398786) and an obituary was published in [The Scientist](https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/fruit-fly-geneticist-dan-lindsley-dies-64377).

 

 

 



 

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