Sarah Heyerdahl
e-mail: sheyerda@nd.edu
Current Status:
Undergraduate, Biology at the University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, IN
Project in the Hollocher Lab: I have been cloning
and sequencing the entire yellow locus of D. similis (from St. Vincent
and Grenada) and D. polymorpha (from Brazil) to compare the gene structure
of these species to that of two other species sequenced earlier (D. dunni
from Puerto Rico and D. nigrodunni from Barbados) in order to study evolutionary
divergence among these Caribbean Drosophila species.