Question: what's the most deadliest fly and why don't you use instead of Fruitflys

Omur Tastan answered on 14 Mar 2016:

Deadliest fly…himm. mosquitos can be considered deadly considering they can carry vile diseases like malaria.

The reason we work with fruit fly is, it is one of the most established model organisms out there. In the scientific community we have microbiologists, who study bacteria, we have yeast people who use yeast-single cell eukaryote, worm people, who use C. elegans as a model, fly people who use fruit flies and we have mouse people and human cells people. Some scientists combine and pursue their interests in multiple models as well.
When you work with a model organism like Drosophila, the fruit fly, there is a huge community of people out there who you can collaborate with!! 🙂 Collaboration is very important in science. You can build up your work based on previous work anf accumulate even more knowledge. The advantages list can be very long but these are the main reasons I picked fruit fly to work with. 🙂