Ribosomal intergenic spacer (IGS) length variation across the Drosophilinae (Diptera: Drosophilidae) [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2005 Background The intergenic spacer of the ribosomal genes in eukaryotes (IGS) contains duplications of the core transcription promoter. The number of these duplicated promoters, as measured by the IGS length, appears to be correlated with growth rate and ...
Markow Therese A, Mateos Mariana
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Two new Neotropical species of Drosophilinae (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from Uruguay [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba), 2016 Two new species of Drosophilidae from Uruguay are described and illustrated: Drosophila montevidensis sp. nov. (Holotype male in MZSP: Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Montevideo city, Department of Montevideo), and Scaptomyza pipinna ...
Beatriz Goñi, Carlos R. Vilela
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A phylogenomic study of Steganinae fruit flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae): strong gene tree heterogeneity and evidence for monophyly [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020 Background The Drosophilidae family is traditionally divided into two subfamilies: Drosophilinae and Steganinae. This division is based on morphological characters, and the two subfamilies have been treated as monophyletic in most of the literature, but ...
Guilherme Rezende Dias +4 more
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Distinct decision-making properties underlying the species specificity of group formation of flies [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Many animal species form groups. Group characteristics differ between species, suggesting that the decision-making of individuals for grouping varies across species. However, the actual decision-making properties that lead to interspecific differences in
Riku Shirasaki +5 more
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DrosoPhyla: Resources for Drosophilid Phylogeny and Systematics. [PDF]
Genome Biol Evol, 2021 The vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster is a pivotal model for invertebrate development, genetics, physiology, neuroscience, and disease. The whole family Drosophilidae, which contains over 4,400 species, offers a plethora of cases for comparative and ...
Finet C +32 more
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Evolution of wing pigmentation in Drosophila: Diversity, physiological regulation, and cis-regulatory evolution. [PDF]
Dev Growth Differ, 2020 Fruit flies (Drosophila and its close relatives, or “drosophilids”) are a group that includes an important model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, and also very diverse species distributed worldwide. Many of these species have black or brown pigmentation patterns on their wings, and have been used as a material for evo‐devo research.
Koshikawa S.
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The origin and structural evolution of de novo genes in Drosophila [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsRecent studies reveal that de novo gene origination from previously non-genic sequences is a common mechanism for gene innovation. These young genes provide an opportunity to study the structural and functional origins of proteins.
Junhui Peng, Li Zhao
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Flies as models for circadian clock adaptation to environmental challenges. [PDF]
Eur J Neurosci, 2020 This review summarizes our current understanding of the evolutionary processes that underlie the molecular, neuronal, and behavioural adaptation of fly circadian clocks to different latitudes. Abstract Life on earth is assumed to have developed in tropical regions that are characterized by regular 24 hr cycles in irradiance and temperature that remain ...
Helfrich-Förster C +2 more
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Species of Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) attracted to dung and carrion baited pitfall traps in the Uruguayan Eastern Serranías [PDF]
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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A new Amazonian species from the Drosophila annulimana species group (Diptera, Drosophilidae) [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 2012 Drosophila caxiuana sp. nov., Drosophila subgenus, is described and illustrated. This new species was collected in the Amazonian Biome (Caquajó river, Portel, Pará, Brazil) and is an atypical species to the group due the unusual morphology of the male ...
Marco S. Gottschalk +3 more
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