The Hawaiian Drosophila Research Stock Center

The Hawaiian Drosophila Research Stock Center (HDRSC) maintains laboratory colonies of Hawaiian Drosophila species, several of which are on the Federal Endangered Species list and therefore protected by federal statues under the Endangered Species Act.  The center provides specimens for researchers at UH as well to other laboratoes nationally and internationally. One of the Hawaiian species, Drosophila grimshawi, which has been maintained at the stock center for about 45 years now, is the source of one of only 12 Drosophila species worldwide whose entire genome has been sequenced.