Drosophila melanogaster species group

Drosophila melanogangster species group
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Drosophilidae
Subfamily:	Drosophilinae
Genus:	Drosophila
Subgenus:	Sophophora
Species group:	melanogaster
species subgroups
	; elegans; ; ; ; ; melanogaster; ; ; ;

The Drosophila melanogaster species group belongs to the subgenus Sophophora and contains 10 subgroups.^[1]^[2] The phylogeny in this species group is poorly known despite many studies covering many of the species subgroups. The most likely explanation is that the various subgroups diverged from each other in a relatively short evolutionary time frame. Three subgroups have not yet been investigated in molecular studies, and their position in the phylogeny is unclear. The suzukii subgroup is paraphyletic as D. lucipennis is systematically placed within the elegans subgroup.

	melanogaster species subgroup

	and

	elegans species subgroup

Species subgroups:

References[]

^ Bächli, G. (1999-2010). TaxoDros: The Database on Taxonomy of Drosophilidae. Available at "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Da Lage, J.-L., Kergoat, G. J., Maczkowiak, F., Silvain, J.-F., Cariou, M.-L. & Lachaise, D. (2007). A phylogeny of Drosophilidae using the Amyrel gene: questioning the Drosophila melanogaster species group boundaries. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 45, 47–63.

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[1] Bächli, G. (1999-2010). TaxoDros: The Database on Taxonomy of Drosophilidae. Available at "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] Da Lage, J.-L., Kergoat, G. J., Maczkowiak, F., Silvain, J.-F., Cariou, M.-L. & Lachaise, D. (2007). A phylogeny of Drosophilidae using the Amyrel gene: questioning the Drosophila melanogaster species group boundaries. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 45, 47–63.

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