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  1. n. A taxonomic genus within the family Drosophilidae — the fruit flies.

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  • “The spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, an invasive vinegar fly native to southeast Asia, first appeared on fruit crops from California to British Columbia last fall.”

    ENS

  • “Sex in Drosophila is largely determined by alternative splicing”

    Poster-Med93

  • “Whitlock & Bourguet, Factors affecting the genetic load in Drosophila: synergistic epistasis and correlations among fitness components, Evolution 2000”

    2009 November - Telic Thoughts

  • “Scientists regulating a brand brand new drug screening method in Drosophila (fruit flies), have identified multiform drugs as good as tiny molecules that retreat a facilities of frail X set of symptoms -- a frequent form of mental slow-down as good as a single of a leading good well well known causes of autism.”

    Archive 2009-11-01

  • “You can see a special Nature web focus here, in which Chris and her editor colleagues write that since its first use as a model organism 100 years ago, Drosophila is one the most Internet-savvy laboratory organisms, with extensive databases devoted to genetics, genomics, taxonomy, breeding and mail ordering.”

    Fruit flies poised to take on world

  • “The syncytial blastoderm in Drosophila show that the nuclei can independently divide and later form a multicellular embryo.”

    Albert de Roos: A design hypothesis for the evolution of the nucleus

  • “If vesicles are then generated from this proto-ER/Golgi, a plasma membrane can be formed on an existing cytoskeleton, a process similar to the formation of the cellular blastoderm in Drosophila and similar to the addition of vesicle to the current plasma membrane.”

    Albert de Roos: A design hypothesis for the evolution of the nucleus

  • “An RNA-directed nuclease mediates post-transcriptional gene silencing in Drosophila cells.”

    Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

  • “In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe51,52, and later on in Drosophila and vertebrates, it was found that similar processes keep heterochromatic regions condensed and transcriptionally suppressed.”

    Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

  • “Molecular genetics of the bithorax complex in Drosophila melanogaster.”

    Edward B. Lewis - Biography

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