Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 1: Getting Started with Flies
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...maintaining heterozygosity is necessary and genetic recombination can potentially cause you to lose track of your...use balancer chromosomes to prevent genetic recombination. Balancer chromosomes essentially are messed.... They are unable to participate in genetic recombination during meiosis. Also, flies are not viable if...feature of balancer chromosomes is that they produce dominant phenotypes visible on the flies. For example, ...the Addgene Blog
Methods for Site Specific Recombination in Drosophila
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