IbinA and IbinB regulate the Toll pathway-mediated immune response in Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground To combat infection, an immune system needs to be promptly activated but tightly controlled to avoid destruction of host tissues. IbinA and IbinB are related short peptides with robust expression upon microbial challenge in Drosophila ...
Matthew K. Maasdorp +9 more
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Characterization of the chemoreceptor repertoire of a highly specialized fly with comparisons to other Drosophila species [PDF]
Genetics and Molecular BiologyTo explore the diversity of scenarios in nature, animals have evolved tools to interact with different environmental conditions. Chemoreceptors are an important interface component and among them, olfactory receptors (ORs) and gustatory receptors (GRs ...
Pedro Mesquita Fonseca +3 more
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Phylogeography of the Subgenus Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae): Evolutionary History of Faunal Divergence between the Old and the New Worlds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The current subgenus Drosophila (the traditional immigrans-tripunctata radiation) includes major elements of temperate drosophilid faunas in the northern hemisphere.
Hiroyuki F Izumitani +4 more
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A comparative study of the short term cold resistance response in distantly related Drosophila species: the role of regucalcin and frost. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The molecular basis of short term cold resistance (indexed as chill-coma recovery time) has been mostly addressed in D. melanogaster, where candidate genes (Dca (also known as smp-30) and Frost (Fst)) have been identified.
Micael Reis +6 more
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Differential attraction of drosophilids to banana baits inoculated with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Hanseniaspora uvarum within a Neotropical forest remnant [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Yeasts are a necessary requisite in the diet of most Drosophila species that, in turn, may vector their dispersal in natural environments.
Marcos R.D. Batista +5 more
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Phylogenetic patterns of geographical and ecological diversification in the subgenus Drosophila. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Colonisation of new geographic regions and/or of new ecological resources can result in rapid species diversification into the new ecological niches available. Members of the subgenus Drosophila are distributed across the globe and show a large diversity
Ramiro Morales-Hojas, Jorge Vieira
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Functional olfactory evolution in Drosophila suzukii and the subgenus Sophophora
iScience, 2022 Summary: Comparative analyses of multiple genomes are used extensively to examine the gains and losses of chemosensory receptors across the genus Drosophila. However, few studies have delved into functional olfactory characteristics.
Ian W. Keesey +8 more
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Drosophila genes that affect meiosis duration are among the meiosis related genes that are more often found duplicated. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Using a phylogenetic approach, the examination of 33 meiosis/meiosis-related genes in 12 Drosophila species, revealed nine independent gene duplications, involving the genes cav, mre11, meiS332, polo and mtrm. Evidence is provided that at least eight out
Micael Reis +4 more
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PLoS Genetics, 2021 It is a conventionally held dogma that the genetic basis underlying development is conserved in a long evolutionary time scale. Ample experiments based on mutational, biochemical, functional, and complementary knockdown/knockout approaches have revealed ...
Shengqian Xia +13 more
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Zoologia (Curitiba), 2012 This study investigates the species richness and abundance of Drosophila Fallén, 1823 attracted to dung and carrion baited pitfall traps in natural areas with heterogeneous habitats at the Sierra de Minas, Eastern Serranías, southeastern Uruguay ...
Beatriz Goñi +4 more
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