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/dɹˌɒsəfˈɪlɐ/
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NOUN
- small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
How To Use drosophila In A Sentence
- This second gene is only found in holometabolous insects, Drosophila, and silkworms but not in the more primitive hemimetabolous insects, like grasshoppers or springtails.
- A number of Daphnia proteins showed one-to-one orthologous relationships to Drosophila ABC proteins including the sulfonyl urea receptor (SUR), the ecdysone transporter ET23, and the eye pigment precursor transporter scarlet. BioMed Central - Latest articles
- The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has two sex chromosomes and three autosomes.
- The e-nose predicted whether twelve odorant receptors from Drosophila would respond to 21 new odorants with roughly 75 percent accuracy. "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader
- The GeneChip Drosophila genome array was hybridized with the test or control probes in parallel experiments.
- In animals, well-studied examples of the coenocytic state are found in oogenesis and in the early embryogeny of Drosophila.
- The development of mosaic flies clearly illustrates the cell autonomy of sex determination in the somatic cells of Drosophila.
- We assume that control of sex determination in the ancestor of Drosophila was through heterogamety at the dsx locus.
- The cuticular hairs formed by epidermal cells are not the only examples of cellular projections found in Drosophila.
- Drosophila mutants, including bicaudal, in a review by Ted Wright (1971). Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - Autobiography