The Drosophilidae are a diverse, cosmopolitan family of flies, which includes species called fruit flies, although they are more accurately referred to as vinegar or pomace flies.[1] Another distantly related family of flies, Tephritidae, are true fruit flies because they are frugivorous, and include apple maggot flies and many pests. The best known species of the Drosophilidae is Drosophila melanogaster, within the genus Drosophila, also called the "fruit fly." Drosophila melanogaster is used extensively for studies concerning genetics, development, physiology, ecology and behaviour. Many fundamental biological mechanisms were discovered first in D. melanogaster.[2] The fruit fly is mostly composed of post-mitotic cells, has a very short lifespan, and shows gradual aging. As in other species, temperature influences the life history of the animal. Several genes have been identified that can be manipulated to extend the lifespan of these insects. Additionally, Drosophila subobscura, also within the genus Drosophila, has been reputed as a model organism for evolutionary-biological studies,[3] along with D. sechellia for the evolution of host specialization on the toxic noni fruit[4] and Scaptomyza flava for the evolution of herbivory and specialist on toxic mustard leaves.[5]
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The Drosophilidae are a diverse, cosmopolitan family of flies, which includes species called fruit flies, although they are more accurately referred to...
The Hawaiian Drosophilidae are a lineage of flies within the genus Drosophila. This monophyletic clade includes all of the endemic Hawaiian Drosophila...
being the Drosophilidae. The family Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus Drosophila (in the family Drosophilidae), which...
is a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae. The species is often referred to as the fruit fly or lesser fruit fly...
fruit fly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fruit fly may refer to: Drosophilidae, a family of small flies, including: Drosophila, the genus of small...
Some leaf-miner flies (Agromyzidae), fruit flies (Tephritidae and Drosophilidae) and gall midges (Cecidomyiidae) are pests of agricultural crops; others...
(1968). "Addition to the fauna of the family Drosophilidae of Japan and adjacent countries (Diptera, Drosophilidae). II. Genera Paramycodrosophila, Mycodrosophila...
(/drəˈsɒfɪlə, drɒ-, droʊ-/) is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or pomace flies...
[Diptera, Drosophilidae]" [Drosophila str. s. acelidota sp. n. and a new afrotropical complex related to the acrostigma-complex (Diptera, Drosophilidae)]. Revue...
primary repository of genetic and molecular data for the insect family Drosophilidae. For the most extensively studied species and model organism, Drosophila...
[Diptera, Drosophilidae]" [Drosophila str. s. acelidota sp. n. and a new afrotropical complex related to the acrostigma-complex (Diptera, Drosophilidae)]. Revue...
[Diptera, Drosophilidae]" [Drosophila str. s. acelidota sp. n. and a new afrotropical complex related to the acrostigma-complex (Diptera, Drosophilidae)]. Revue...
R. T. (2010). "Taxonomic relationships within the endemic Hawaiian Drosophilidae (Insecta: Diptera)" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 108: 1–34...
radiation. Bächli, G. (1999-2010). TaxoDros: The Database on Taxonomy of Drosophilidae. Available at "Welcome to T a x o D r o S". Archived from the original...
Database on Taxonomy of Drosophilidae. Available at http://www.taxodros.uzh.ch/ Brncic, D. (1957) Las especies Chilenas de Drosophilidae. Coleccion de Monografias...
position of the subgenus Lordiphosa of the genus Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) inferred from alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) gene sequences". Journal...
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...
str. (Diptera: Drosophilidae)" [Description of three new afrotropical species of the subgenus Drosophila s. str. (Diptera: Drosophilidae)]. Annales de...
suzukii poses to these fruit is ongoing. Like other members of the Drosophilidae, D. suzukii is small, approximately 2 to 3.5 millimetres (5⁄64 to 9⁄64 in)...
genus Drosophila Fallén, with descriptions of six new species (Diptera, Drosophilidae)". ZooKeys (781): 19–50. doi:10.3897/zookeys.781.27354. ISSN 1313-2970...
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