Drosophila ananassae
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Species complex: | Drosophila ananassae complex
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Species: | D. ananassae
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Drosophila ananassae Doleschall, 1858
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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]
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References
- ^ Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium; et al. (2007). "Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny". Nature. 450 (7167): 203–218. doi:10.1038/nature06341. PMID 17994087.
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External links
- Drosophila ananassae at FlyBase
- Drosophila ananassae at Ensembl Genomes Metazoa
- View the droAna2 genome assembly in the UCSC Genome Browser.