Drosophila ananassae

Drosophila ananassae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Drosophilidae
Genus:	Drosophila
Subgenus:	Sophophora
Species group:	Drosophila melanogaster group
Species subgroup:
Species complex:	Drosophila ananassae complex
Species:	D. ananassae
Binomial name
	Drosophila ananassae; Doleschall, 1858

Drosophila ananassae is a species of fruit fly that is a useful model organism for genetic studies because it is easily cultured in the laboratory, and was one of 12 fruitfly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study.^[1]

Drosophila ananassae - Female

References[]

^ Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium; et al. (2007). "Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny". Nature. 450 (7167): 203–218. Bibcode:2007Natur.450..203C. doi:10.1038/nature06341. PMID 17994087.

External links[]

Drosophila ananassae at FlyBase
Drosophila ananassae at Ensembl Genomes Metazoa
View the droAna2 genome assembly in the UCSC Genome Browser.

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[1] Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium; et al. (2007). "Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny". Nature. 450 (7167): 203–218. Bibcode:2007Natur.450..203C. doi:10.1038/nature06341. PMID 17994087.

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