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apple maggot

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apple maggot, larva of a fruit fly fruit fly, common name for any of the flies of the families Tephritidae and Drosophilidae. All fruit flies are very small insects that lay their eggs in various plant tissues.
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, Rhagoletis pomonella.


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Natural selection has been seen in nature (antibiotic resistant bacteria, apple maggot flies, among others) and has been reproduced in the lab.
The apple maggot fly offers a glimpse of how such developmental effects translate into real-world evolution, Gottlieb adds.
 
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