Drosophila (/drəˈsɒfɪlə, drɒ-, droʊ-/) is a genus of fly, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or...

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...

Drosophila suzukii, commonly called the spotted wing drosophila or SWD, is a fruit fly. D. suzukii, originally from southeast Asia, is becoming a major...

Drosophila embryogenesis, the process by which Drosophila (fruit fly) embryos form, is a favorite model system for genetics and developmental biology...

Drosophila. It is related to the Drosophila quinaria and Drosophila testacea species groups, and the fellow Immigrans species group member Drosophila...

demonstrated that eclosion (the process of pupa turning into adult) in Drosophila pseudoobscura was a circadian behaviour. He demonstrated that while temperature...

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

Drosophila repleta is a species of vinegar fly in the family Drosophilidae. D. repleta is a subtropical species, and is well adapted to warm, urbanized...

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...

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...

Drosophila. Drosophila funebris is a member of the Immigrans-tripunctata radiation of the subgenus Drosophila. Drosophila funebris female Drosophila funebris...

Drosophila montana, colloquially referred to as a fruit fly, is a species of fly belonging to the family Drosophilidae and the genus Drosophila. It belongs...

 fuscimana Binomial name Chymomyza fuscimana (Zetterstedt, 1838) Synonyms Drosophila fuscimana Zetterstedt, 1838 Drosophila albopunctata Becker, 1900...

Drosophila is a paraphyletic subgenus of the genus Drosophila, a classification of fruit flies. This subgenus was first described by Alfred Sturtevant...

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

Subfamily: Drosophilinae Genus: Chymomyza Species: C. costata Binomial name Chymomyza costata (Zetterstedt, 1838) Synonyms Drosophila costata Zetterstedt, 1838...

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...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila period gene in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative...

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...

Rhinoleucophenga Species: R. obesa Binomial name Rhinoleucophenga obesa (Loew, 1872) Synonyms Drosophila obesa Loew, 1872 Phortica hirtifrons Johnson, 1913...

Abdominal pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster is a morphologically simple but highly variable trait that often has adaptive significance.  Pigmentation...

Drosophila subobscura is a species of fruit fly in the family Drosophilidae. Originally found around the Mediterranean, it has spread to most of Europe...

for segmentation. Hox genes are found in bilateral animals, including Drosophila (in which they were first discovered) and humans. Hox genes are a subset...

P elements are transposable elements that were discovered in Drosophila as the causative agents of genetic traits called hybrid dysgenesis. The transposon...

Drosophila nigrospiracula is a fly species indigenous to the Sonoran Desert, spanning Arizona, Baja California, and part of Sonora, Mexico. D. nigrospiracula...

Drosophila mojavensis is a cactophilic species of fruit fly from the southwestern United States and Mexico, and was one of 12 fruitfly genomes sequenced...

Drosophila sechellia is a species of fruit fly, used in lab studies of speciation because it can mate with Drosophila simulans. Drosophila sechellia is...

of a segmented organism. Animals are constructed of segments; however, Drosophila segments also contain subdivided compartments. There are five gene classes...

lineage of flies within the genus Drosophila. This monophyletic clade includes all of the endemic Hawaiian Drosophila and all members of the genus Scaptomyza...

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...