Support for the Drosophila Species Collection

这笔拨款支持鲍灵格林州立大学的国家果蝇物种资源中心。该中心为美国和国外的研究界维护和分发了大约300种果蝇。该中心还提供其他服务，包括鉴定标本，协助培养果蝇，维护参考图书馆，出版馆藏目录，以及支持访问中心的科学家。该中心被认为是生物研究界的宝贵资源，因为果蝇是现代生物学中最常用的实验模型系统之一。

This grant supports the national Drosophila Species Resource Center, at Bowling Green State University. The Center maintains and distributes approximately 300 species of Drosophila for the research community in the U.S. as well as foreign countries. The Center also provides other services including identification of specimens, assistance in culturing Drosophila, maintenance of reference libraries, publication of catalogues of the collection, and support of visiting scientists at the Center. The Center is considered an invaluable resource to the biological research community at large as Drosophila is one of the most often used experimental model systems in modern biology.