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Drosophila

a genus of insects of the family Drosophilidae. The genus consists of small insects (about 3.5 mm long) with a bulging body and, as a rule, red eyes. Drosophila is distributed all over the world, with 25 species in the USSR. It is found everywhere, especially in vegetable and fruit storehouses. The larvae develop mainly in fermenting, frequently semiliquid, plant residues. Because of the ease with which they can be raised in the laboratory, the rapidity of their development, and the distinctness of segregation of species in the offspring, several species, chiefly the common banana fly (D. melanogaster), became a major object of genetics research after the work of the American scientist T. Morgan. Mutagenesis was studied quantitatively in Drosophila, and the first experimental mutations were induced in it. In nature, Drosophila is important as a carrier of yeast fungi.

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demonstrated an association between the innate immune response and neurodegeneration in a Drosophila model of the human disease Ataxia-telangiectasia, with elevated expression of innate immune response genes in glial cells.[49],[50] We showed ectopic expression of the NS3 protein of JEV not only in the fat body but also in brain neuronal cells of two species of mosquito [Figure 5]b, and suspected that AMP genes could be implicated in mosquito brain inflammation.

Natural selection on the Drosophila antimicrobial immune system.

Expression of foreign proteins by antimicrobial peptide gene promoters in mosquitoes

The availability of Drosophila whole genome sequence enabled the recognition of previously unrecognized ion channels.

For starvation assay, the Drosophila activity monitoring system (DAMS) from TriKinetics was employed to analyse the starvation resistance and activity/sleeping index in our experiments (Hergarden et al., 2012).

Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channels in Drosophila Regulate the Sleep/Wake Behaviour through PDF-Neurons

In the most studied species, Drosophila melanogaster Meigen 1830 dominant CHC in males are n-alkanes, methyl-branched alkanes and alkenes (Kent et al., 2008).

Sexual dimorphism in both number and amount of cuticular chemical compounds was expressed, as in many other Drosophila species (Ferveur, 2005; Ferveur and Cobb, 2010; Pavkovic-Lucic et al., 2016).

Short Communication - CUTICULAR CHEMOPROFILE OF THE FRUIT FLY DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA (DIPTERA, DROSOPHILIDAE)

However, all rotten grapes remaining in the orchard until Aug contained Drosophila eggs or larvae.

Ecological niche difference associated with varied ethanol tolerance between Drosophila suzukii and Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Drosophila pseudokorefae belongs to the flavopilosa species group in the subgenus Drosophila.

Dos nuevas especies de los grupos Drosophila flavopilosa y Drosophila morelia (Diptera: Drosophilidae) en los Andes Orientales del Ecuador

The resulting 3-day-old larvae (third instar larvae) were then placed in plastic vials containing 4.5 g of Drosophila instant medium (Carolina Biological Supply, Burlington, NC) prepared with 10 mL of various nontoxic concentrations of Cu-NPs (0.1, 1, and 5 mM), Cu-MPs, Ni-NPs, and Ni-MPs (1, 5, and 10 mM).

Genotoxicity of Copper and Nickel Nanoparticles in Somatic Cells of Drosophila melanogaster