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Drosophila: see 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. ..... Click the link for more information. . drosophilaAny member of about 1,000 species in the dipteran genus Drosophila, commonly known as fruit flies but also called vinegar flies. Some species, particularly D. melanogaster, are used extensively in laboratories for experiments on genetics and evolution because they are easy to raise and have a short life cycle (less than two weeks at room temperature). More data have been collected concerning the genetics of Drosophila than for any other animal. In the wild, its larvae live in rotting or damaged fruits or in fungi or fleshy flowers. |
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To locate the carbon dioxide-sensing genes, Leslie Vosshall of the Rockefeller Institute in New York and her colleagues worked with Drosophila melanogaster. ``The work we're doing involves mutant Drosophila -- fruit flies. Details of the joint research are available in the online issue of Nature Immunology, which was published on June 11, under the title "PGRP-LC and PGRP-LE play essential yet distinct roles in the drosophila immune response to monomeric DAP-type peptidoglycan". |
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