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  • proper noun 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 2010

  • 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 2010

  • Sex in Drosophila is largely determined by alternative splicing

    Poster-Med93 1993

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

    2009 November - Telic Thoughts 2009

  • 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.

    Autism Related Disorders: Drosophila Drug Screen For Fragile X ... admin 2009

  • 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 admin 2009

  • 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 Maxine 2007

  • 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.

    November 2007 Maxine 2007

  • 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 Maxine 2007

  • 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 2006

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