Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

03 Jul, 05 AM - 05 Jul, 05 AM

Wolbachia is a bacteria parasite that infects a wide variety of insects all around the world and has the ability to spread rapidly through insect populations. Research on the parasite has led to the discovery that Wolbachia often disrupts early development of insect embryos and many investigators believe it may play an important role in insect speciation. A project has been developed in the William Sullivan lab to map the distribution of Wolbachia among coastal populations of the fly, Drosophila melanogaster, in California. Big creek in Big-Sur is a good location to put traps full of banana and rotten fruits to attrack the fruit flies. The purpose of this trip is to bring the traps in the reserve. Those traps will be collected one or two weeks after.

Visit #7529 @Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

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Under Project # 5532 | Research

Wolbachia

faculty - University of California, Santa Cruz

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Group of 7 Faculty Jul 3 - 5, 2005 (3 days)

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Whale Point Researcher Cabin 7 Jul 3 - 5, 2005