S.E. Mohr's "First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery" available 03/01/2018

Drosophila biologist Stephanie Mohr's book First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery was published by Harvard University Press on March 1, 2018. The book, aimed at a non-expert audience, celebrates key insights into biology made using Drosophila melanogaster.

"Serious science, elegantly described" - Nature.  

"To read First in Fly is to appreciate the full scope of fruit-fly research and to understand the intimate connections in the DNA of every human cell and Drosophila cell." - The Atlantic

"... its deep dive into the incredible and outsized role these tiny flies play in scientific research will not disappoint." - Popular Science

Related posts: L.I. Held's "Deep Homology" published Jan. 2017.