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Record W2513251528 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511973970.013

The dreaded fruit fly

2010· book-chapter· en· W2513251528 on OpenAlex
Lionel G. Harrison

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2010
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicInsect behavior and control techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHorticultureBiology

Abstract

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Why ‘dreaded’ and by whom? There is more than just an urge to be facetious in my title for this chapter. I have two reasons to dread the fruit fly. First, when I, and other practitioners of dynamic theories of development of my acquaintance, have tried to make some definite contact with experimental biologists, we have of course received diverse reactions from different individuals. But there have also been group characters discernible for people studying particular kinds of organism. And among the groups that I have had contact with, the very large one devoted to the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has seemed, particularly through the 1990s, to be one of the most difficult with which to sustain an interaction. There is, I think, a very sound reason for this, and it is much more sociological than scientific. Through the past half-century, the dynamic theory group has remained quite small, while the fruit fly group started from small beginnings and exploded to many thousands of workers, mainly seeking to identify new genes through their functions as revealed by mutations. That highly competitive and attention-absorbing field tended, I believe, to widen the gap in approaches and attitudes between molecular biologists and macroscopic-scale dynamic theorists that, for the proper advance of developmental biology, should be a shrinking gap.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.984
Threshold uncertainty score0.563

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.183
Teacher spread0.163 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it