Interactive Anatomical Atlas of Flies

One of the most exciting new tools illustrating the external morphology of flies has debuted at CSIRO in Canberra Australia. Sponsored by the Australian Biological Research Study (ABRS) as part of its funding for an interactive key to the fly families of Australia, this self-guided tour provides an illustrated glossary and unique look at the transformational homologies (how the same structure changes) among four diverse groups of flies.

This tool requires a Flash plug-in for your browser and broadband access is required. Go to the Anatomical Atlas of Flies.

Fly Morphology Comes to MorphBank!

Images from the FLYTREE project are now being posted on MorphBank, a partner with NSF Assembling the Tree of Life projects. The first species is a fly from the family Therevidae, Acrosathe novella, or see the accumulating submissions...