By 1903 William J. Moenkhaus had brought Drosophila back to his lab at Indiana University Med School. Moenkhaus in turn convinced entomologist Frank E. Lutz that it would be a good organism for the work he was doing at Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Springs Harbor, Long Island on experimental evolution.
By 1903, William J. Moenkhaus had brought Drosophila back to his lab at Indiana University Med School. Moenkhaus also convinced entomologist Frank E. Lutz that the fruit fly would be a suitable subject for experimental evolution research conducted by Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Springs Harbor, Long Island.