Biology:Drosophila phalerata
| Drosophila phalerata | |
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| File:Dphalerata male.tif | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Drosophilidae |
| Genus: | Drosophila |
| Subgenus: | Drosophila |
| Species: | D. phalerata
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| Binomial name | |
| Drosophila phalerata Meigen, 1830
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Drosophila phalerata is a species of mushroom-feeding fruit fly in the Drosophila quinaria species group. The genome of D. phalerata was sequenced in 2019 as part of a study on the evolution of immune systems, but was not assembled de novo.[1]
Unlike its sister species D. innubila, the anterior and posterior costal wing veins of D. phalerata show prominent melanin deposition (see gallery below). Drosophila quinaria species group flies including the related D. guttifera display marked variation in their wing patterning, and melanin synthesis and deposition has been used as an obvious and malleable trait to study the regulation of gene expression.[2]
Gallery
D. phalerata male
D. phalerata female
Image of dorsal setae of a D. phalerata female
Image of melanin deposition along the anterior and posterior costal wing veins of a D. phalerata female
Wing vein and melanin deposition of Drosophila quinaria species group members
References
- ↑ Hill, Tom; Koseva, Boryana S; Unckless, Robert L; Singh, Nadia (13 March 2019). "The genome of Drosophila innubila reveals lineage-specific patterns of selection in immune genes". Molecular Biology and Evolution 36 (7): 1405–1417. doi:10.1093/molbev/msz059. PMID 30865231.
- ↑ "Gain of cis-regulatory activities underlies novel domains of wingless gene expression in Drosophila". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 (24): 7524–9. June 2015. doi:10.1073/pnas.1509022112. PMID 26034272. Bibcode: 2015PNAS..112.7524K.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q13851887 entry
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