Morgan, T. H., & Bridges, C. B. Sex-Linked Inheritance in Drosophila (Washington, DC, Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1916) (link to article) Wilson, E. B. The chromosomes in relation to the ...

The rocket to biological stardom for Drosophila really began in 1906 when it was adopted as an organism of study by Thomas Hunt Morgan, who would go on to become one of the most influential ...

Morgan expected a 1:1:1:1 ratio of red-eyed females, red-eyed males, white-eyed males, and white-eyed females. Instead, he observed the following phenotypes in his F 2 generation: 2,459 red-eyed ...

Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...