Drosophila (/drəˈsɒfɪlə, drɒ-, droʊ-/) is a genus of fly, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or...
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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...
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Drosophila embryogenesis, the process by which Drosophila (fruit fly) embryos form, is a favorite model system for genetics and developmental biology...
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Drosophila suzukii, commonly called the spotted wing drosophila or SWD, is a fruit fly. D. suzukii, originally from southeast Asia, is becoming a major...
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Circadian rhythm (section In Drosophila)
demonstrated that eclosion (the process of pupa turning into adult) in Drosophila pseudoobscura was a circadian behaviour. He demonstrated that while temperature...
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Chymomyza fuscimana (redirect from Drosophila fuscimana)
fuscimana Binomial name Chymomyza fuscimana (Zetterstedt, 1838) Synonyms Drosophila fuscimana Zetterstedt, 1838 Drosophila albopunctata Becker, 1900...
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Drosophila bifurca is a species of fruit fly. Males of this species are known to have the longest sperm cells of any organism on Earth—5.8 cm long when...
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Lordiphosa andalusiaca (redirect from Drosophila andalusiaca)
Species: L. andalusiaca Binomial name Lordiphosa andalusiaca (Strobl, 1906) Synonyms Drosophila andalusiaca Strobl, 1906 Drosophila forcipata Collin, 1952...
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Drosophila busckii is a species of fruit fly that is native to North America, though it now also occurs in Asia, Europe, Oceania and South America. It...
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Octopamine (section In non-Drosophila insects)
(Drosophila melanogaster) has DmOctβ1R, DmOctβ2R, and DmOctβ3R. OAMB. The diversity of this receptor is relatively unknown. The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila period gene in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative...
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Chymomyza costata (redirect from Drosophila costata)
Subfamily: Drosophilinae Genus: Chymomyza Species: C. costata Binomial name Chymomyza costata (Zetterstedt, 1838) Synonyms Drosophila costata Zetterstedt, 1838...
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Drosophila lanaiensis is an extinct species of fly in family Drosophilidae that was endemic to Hawaii. It lived on Lānaʻi, and possibly on Oʻahu. World...
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Drosophila circadian rhythm is a daily 24-hour cycle of rest and activity in the fruit flies of the genus Drosophila. The biological process was discovered...
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Drosophila hydei (mosca casera) is a species of Diptera, or the order of flies, in the family Drosophilidae. It is a species in the hydei species subgroup...
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Mushroom bodies (section Drosophila melanogaster)
americana, the honey bee Apis mellifera, the locust and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Studies of fruit fly mushroom bodies have been particularly...
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Drosophila. It is related to the Drosophila quinaria and Drosophila testacea species groups, and the fellow Immigrans species group member Drosophila...
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Drosophila simulans is a species of fly closely related to D. melanogaster, belonging to the same melanogaster species subgroup. Its closest relatives...
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Hox gene (section In Drosophila)
gene are similar enough to target the same downstream genes in flies. Drosophila melanogaster is an important model for understanding body plan generation...
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P element (redirect from Drosophila p element)
P elements are transposable elements that were discovered in Drosophila as the causative agents of genetic traits called hybrid dysgenesis. The transposon...
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Drosophila synthetica refers to a genetically engineered population of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. This population was created under laboratory...
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Drosophila. Drosophila funebris is a member of the Immigrans-tripunctata radiation of the subgenus Drosophila. Drosophila funebris female Drosophila funebris...
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Drosophila elegans is a flower-feeding species of fruit flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae. It is found in Taiwan and the Philippines in Asia...
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Drosophila is a paraphyletic subgenus of the genus Drosophila, a classification of fruit flies. This subgenus was first described by Alfred Sturtevant...
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Drosophila subobscura is a species of fruit fly in the family Drosophilidae. Originally found around the Mediterranean, it has spread to most of Europe...
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Rhinoleucophenga obesa (redirect from Drosophila obesa)
Rhinoleucophenga Species: R. obesa Binomial name Rhinoleucophenga obesa (Loew, 1872) Synonyms Drosophila obesa Loew, 1872 Phortica hirtifrons Johnson, 1913...
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A Drosophila connectome is a list of neurons in the Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) nervous system, and the chemical synapses between them. The fly's...
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lineage of flies within the genus Drosophila. This monophyletic clade includes all of the endemic Hawaiian Drosophila and all members of the genus Scaptomyza...
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Drosophila acanthomera is a species of fruit fly in the genus Drosophila. Tsacas, L. (2001). "Description de trois nouvelles espèces afrotropicales du...
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William E. Castle (section Harvard and Drosophila)
suggested to Castle that Drosophila might be used for genetical work. Castle was the first to use the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, and it was his...
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