Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae. The species is often referred to as the fruit...

especially the Mediterranean fruit fly. One species of Drosophila in particular, Drosophila melanogaster, has been heavily used in research in genetics and...

Drosophila simulans is a species of fly closely related to D. melanogaster, belonging to the same melanogaster species subgroup. Its closest relatives...

Thomas Hunt Morgan later showed that a new white-eye mutation in Drosophila melanogaster was also sex-linked. He found that a white-eyed male crossed with...

organisms: Genera: Melanogaster (fungus), a genus of false truffles Melanogaster (fly), a genus of hoverflies Species: Drosophila melanogaster, a species of...

americana, the honey bee Apis mellifera, the locust and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Studies of fruit fly mushroom bodies have been particularly important...

biology of NF1 came from model organisms including the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zebrafish Danio rerio and the mouse Mus musculus, which all...

The Drosophila melanogaster species subgroup contains 9 species of flies, including the best known species Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. The...

From 1910 to 1927, Thomas Hunt Morgan's work with the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster identified chromosomes as the vector of inheritance for genes,...

multitude of studies that would not have been possible without it. Drosophila melanogaster is a popular experimental animal because it is easily cultured...

the sense of smell and taste in higher animals, using the fly Drosophila melanogaster as a study case. He provided a detailed account of the anatomy...

developmental studies. Drosophila melanogaster was introduced into the field of genetic experiments by Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1909. Drosophila display a holometabolous...

PMID 352650. Konopka RJ, Benzer S (September 1971). "Clock mutants of Drosophila melanogaster". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United...

of the tissue but not in others, as seen in the eye of mutated Drosophila melanogaster. However, it is possible that the effect of the silenced gene is...

model organisms in regards to homeotic genes is the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Its homeotic Hox genes occur in either the Antennapedia complex...

connect to developing ooctypes via nutritive cords. In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a common model organism for developmental research, each ovary...

inter-locus sexual conflict are the seminal fluid proteins of Drosophila melanogaster, which up-regulate females' egg-laying rate and reduces her desire...

beta-catenin, thus allowing the VEGF enzyme to solicit angiogenesis. In Drosophila melanogaster the foraging (for) gene is a polymorphic trait that underlies differences...

"Disruptive and stabilizing selection on the" escape" behavior of Drosophila melanogaster", Genetics, 62 (3): 625–637, doi:10.1093/genetics/62.3.625, PMC 1212303...

applications. Model organisms, such as Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster, are commonly used for test crosses. Basic procedures for performing...

the 2’ or 3’ oxygen; this has also been confirmed to exist in Drosophila melanogaster, zebrafish, mice, and rats. This 3’ modification is a 2’-O-methylation;...

(Drosophila melanogaster) has DmOctβ1R, DmOctβ2R, and DmOctβ3R. OAMB. The diversity of this receptor is relatively unknown. The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)...

Morgan began to study the genetic characteristics of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In his famous Fly Room at Columbia University's Schermerhorn Hall...

in Drosophila melanogaster in the early 1930s by German biologists Emil Heitz and Hans Bauer. In 1930, Heitz studied different species of Drosophila (D...

"Disruptive and stabilizing selection on the" escape" behavior of Drosophila melanogaster", Genetics, 62 (3): 625–637, doi:10.1093/genetics/62.3.625, PMC 1212303...

reproduction. Extensive research with model invertebrate species such as Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans has contributed much to our understanding...

Escargot (esg) is a transcription factor expressed in Drosophila melanogaster. It is responsible for the maintenance of intestinal stem cells and is used...

are similar enough to target the same downstream genes in flies. Drosophila melanogaster is an important model for understanding body plan generation and...

have XX and others XY chromosomes (46, XX/XY). In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, where a fly possessing two X chromosomes is a female and a fly...

with p120Ras GAP in this pathway. Expressed in all tissues of Drosophila melanogaster but mostly in neural cells. Overexpression is somewhat lethal and...