The Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC) collects, maintains, and distributes genetically defined strains of Drosophila melanogaster for research and education. The BDSC supports a large, worldwide community of scientists using Drosophila as a model organism for biomedical experimentation. The goals of the BDSC are to provide a collection of documented living stocks of broad value to current research, to preserve documented strains with clear future value, and to provide information and support services that promote maximal exploitation of these materials. We carry over 91,000 stocks, which can be searched and ordered on our website
.The BDSC curates stocks which model various aspects of human disease and human health-related processes and generates user-friendly webpages with human disease gene information, putative fly orthologues, and available stocks. We currently have pages for 49 human diseases or processes including Alzheimer, Huntington, metabolism/diabetes, Parkinson, epilepsy, and muscular dystrophies.
Visit https://bdsc.indiana.edu/stocks/hd/index.html to see a full list of human diseases and associated BDSC stocks.
Other major categories of stocks available at BDSC:
Find stocks using the ‘Stock Search’ box on our main page (https://bdsc.indiana.edu) or browsing our categorized tables of stocks (https://bdsc.indiana.edu/stocks/index.html). Request a new account or be added to an existing account: https://bdsc.indiana.edu/Account/Register
How to order: https://bdsc.indiana.edu/order-accounts/how.html
Conditions of use: https://bdsc.indiana.edu/order-accounts/conditions.html
Stock and handling fees: https://bdsc.indiana.edu/order-accounts/fees/index.html
Contact us!
Questions about fly stocks or fly genetics? Questions about orders, shipments, or accounts? Questions about payments, purchase orders, or invoices? Want to donate stocks? flystock@iu.edu