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| | Drosophila melanogaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830 (Black-bellied Dew-lover) a dipteran (two-winged) insect, is the species of fruit fly that is commonly used in genetic experiments; it is among the most important model organisms. | | | Drosophila, and probably many other flies, have optic nerves which lead directly to the wing muscles (while in other insects they always lead to the brain first), making it possible for them to react even more quickly. | | | Embryogenesis in Drosophila has been extensively studied, the small size, short generation time, and large brood size makes it ideal for genetic studies. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_melanogaster
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| | Drosophila gene families: cytoskeleton |
| | Monopolar to monastral bipolar spindle conversion also appears to occur in untreated cells as well, because both monopolar (<5% of mitotic cells) and monastral bipolar spindles (10% of bipolar spindles) were observed in untreated S2. | | | In a few cases, however, such as in the sperm cells of Drosophila and the flagella of the parasite Plasmodium, the entire axoneme is first assembled inside the cytosol and only later is either extruded or matures into a flagellum (i.e., cytosolic biogenesis) (Avidor-Reiss, 2004). | | | Moreover, it has been reported that 0.9% of mitotic spindles of the wild-type Drosophila larval neuroblasts display monastral bipolar spindles. |
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http://www.sdbonline.org/fly/aignfam/cytoskel.htm
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| | C. Nüsslein-Volhard and Drosophila embryogenesis |
| | Up until the 1970s, embryologists tended to study amphibians, sea urchins, and chicks animals with large eggs whose cells could be transplanted. | | | Similarly, geneticists interested in multicellular animals stuck very closely to Drosophila where the genetics had been well studied and the techniques for breeding the animals were well characterized. | | | She decided that she wanted to combine genetics with embryology, and this meant learning both embryology and genetics. |
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| | ADW: Drosophila melanogaster: Information |
| | Drosophila are considered major pests in some area of the world for this reason. | | | The adults thrive on rotting plants, and fruits; while eggs are usually laid on unripened/slightly ripened fruit, so by the time the larva develop the fruit will have just started to rot, and they can use the fruit that the egg was laid on as their primary source of nutrition. | | | As in all insect species Drosophila melanogaster lays eggs. |
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http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Drosophila_melanogaster.html
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| | Fruit flies |
| | Drosophila melanogaster, commonly called the Fruit fly or vinegar fly is one of the best researched insects in the world. | | | Fine for feeding birds and small reptiles and amphibians but dam difficult to feed to fish. | | | The container must be covered with quarter inch wire mesh. |
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http://home.clara.net/xenotoca/fruitflies.htm
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| | Princeton University Senior Theses brief display |
| | Stewart, Jaliya A. Early Germline Development in Drosophila melanogaster/Drosophila simulans Hybrids. | | | Campbell, Jeffrey Wakeling (1987): Pupal Eye Development: Morphological Studies in Wild Type and Facet-Glossy Ommatidium of the Drosophila Melanogaster. | | | Li, Jennifer M. Targeting the Host Germline: The Mechanism of Wolbachia Localization and its Dependence on Host Factors during Drosophila melanogaster Development. |
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http://libweb5.princeton.edu/theses/thesesvw.asp?Lname=&Fname=&Submit=Search&Title1=drosophila&department=&Class=&Adviser=
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| | CiteULike: Tag drosophila |
| | Toward a comprehensive genetic analysis of male fertility in Drosophila melanogaster. | | | Functional divergence caused by ancient positive selection of a Drosophila hybrid incompatibility locus. | | | Divergent selection and the evolution of signal traits and mating preferences. |
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http://www.citeulike.org/tag/drosophila
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| | 96.05.01: Using Drosophila to Teach Genetics |
| | Drosophila melanogaster adults do not mate for about 10 hours after eclosion (emerging from the egg). | | | New tubes (with food in the bottom) in which to put your mated flies, and raise the offspring. | | | Remember: eye color is a sex-linked trait in Drosophila, carried on the X chromosome.) B. Heterozygous wild-type females and wild-type males. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/5/96.05.01.x.html
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| | Drosophila melanogaster |
| | How a single fertilized egg can give rise to different kinds of cells. | | | Its embryo grows outside the body and can easily be studied at every stage of development. | | | Within a few years of the rediscovery of Mendel's rules in 1900, Drosophila melanogaster (the so-called fruit fly) became a favorite "model" organism for genetics research. |
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http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/D/Drosophila.html
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| | Drosophila melanogaster |
| | Wild Type Drosophila: normal wings, red eyes female | | | Wild Type Drosophila: normal wings, red eyes, male | | | Mutant strains of Drosophila melanogaster are commonly used in freshman biology labs to illustrate the principles of genetics. |
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http://www.dmacc.cc.ia.us/instructors/drosophi.htm
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| | Drosophila |
| | One of the major disadvantages with Drosophila is also its genetic plasticity. | | | Drosophila melonogaster, or the fruit fly, has an adult size of about 3mm, and has been used extensively as a model organism to study animal genetics since early 20th century. | | | Since Morgan's study, the fruit fly has been used to study genetics, development, behaviour and other fields of sciences. |
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http://dragon.zoo.utoronto.ca/~B03T0801B/drosophila.html
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| | HHMI News: Drosophila Odorant Receptors Identified |
| | The discovery of odor-detecting receptors in the fruit fly Drosophila may help scientists better understand how insects–and eventually other animals–process olfactory information and how odors influence insect behavior. | | | Fruit flies gather information about their surroundings and social interactions from scents, and research has shown that odors exert a strong influence on fruit fly behavior. | | | Further testing showed that a gene called dor104 is active only in the sensory nerve cells of the olfactory organs, implicating it in odor detection. |
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http://www.hhmi.org/news/axel.html
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| | Growth factors in Drosophila |
| | Despite the enormous progress made in understanding the genetics of Drosophila development, this insect has not previously lent itself to the production of defined systems for the assay of materials with mitogenic activities in vitro. | | | As a result, conventional assays for growth factors have not been applied to Drosophila cells, and growth factors similar to those known from mammalian cells have not been identified in Drosophila. | | | We suspect that this reflects differences between the experimental systems and the way they have been used, rather than a fundamental difference in cell proliferation control mechanisms between Drosophila and mammals. |
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http://www.entu.cas.cz/fyziol/adgf.html
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| | Drosophila sites |
| | Mosher, J. and Crews, S. Effectene reagent yields high transfection efficiencies with Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells. | | | Thomas, J.B. and Crews, S.T. Molecular genetics of neuronal development in the Drosophila embryo. | | | Crews, S. Control of cell lineage specific development and transcription by bHLH-PAS proteins. |
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http://www.unc.edu/~crews/Publications.htm
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| | drosophila - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include drosophila: drosophila melanogaster, genus drosophila, drosophila - fruit fly, drosophila 60a, drosophila abnormal wing disk, more... | | | This is a OneLook Word of the Day, which means it might be in the news. | | | Words similar to drosophila: drosophilae, drosophila melanogaster, more... |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=drosophila&loc=wotd
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| | The Drosophila melanogaster Malpighian tubule |
| | The Drosophila melanogaster Malpighian tubule provides a unique opportunity to perform traditional epithelial physiology, pharmacology and biochemistry on a tissue that is also manipulable with the unique power of Drosophila genetics. | | | Its development is also well understood, meaning that we can obtain a better and more rounded picture of this tissue than almost any other epithelium. | | | Development of the Drosophila Malpighian tubule in The Interactive Fly |
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http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/tubules/tubules-www.html
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| | EEB Faculty Bio |
| | Kidwell, M. Lateral transfer in natural populations of eukaryotes. | | | She also uses computer simulations to model the dynamics of transposable elements in insect populations and population cage studies to explore the feasibility of using transposable elements as genetic drivers in Drosophila and mosquito populations. | | | Possible horizontal transfer of Drosophila genes by the mite Proctolaelaps regalis. |
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http://eebweb.arizona.edu/Faculty/Bios/kidwell.html
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| | Amazon.com: Drosophila Protocols: Books |
| | SIPs: egg collection plates, tit sodium phosphate, aerosolized cocaine, dissection buffer, live egg chambers (more) | | | The Embryonic Development of Drosophila Melanogaster by J.A. Campos-Ortega | | | MITOTIC CHROMOSOME CYTOLOGY HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE in many areas of Drosophila research. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879695862?v=glance
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| | drosophila melanogaster from On-line Medical Dictionary |
| | A species of fruit fly much used in genetics because of the large size of its chromosomes. | | | Previous: dropwort, drosera, drosometer, Drosophila, drosophila heat-shock protein | | | Published at the Centre for Cancer Education, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
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http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=Drosophila+melanogaster
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| | AAA--Assembly/Alignment/Annotation of 12 Drosophila Genomes |
| | dbEST insect sequence dataset (minus Drosophila): na_dbEST.insect.Z (BDGP) | | | It is meant as resource for Drosophilists and other researchers interested in comparative analysis of these species and their genomes. | | | Mauve multiple alignments for 6 Drosophila genomes - Darling group (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) |
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http://rana.lbl.gov/drosophila/multipleflies.html
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| | Definition of drosophila - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |
| | : any of a genus (Drosophila) of small two-winged flies used in genetic research | | | For More Information on "drosophila" go to Britannica.com | | | Get the Top 10 Search Results for "drosophila" |
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http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=drosophila
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| | DROSOPHILA - Definition |
| | A genus of small flies which are extensively used as test animals to study genetics, cell biology, and developmental biology. | | | The most well-known species used is Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly. |
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http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/drosophila
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| | nature genome gateway - papers - Drosophila melanogaster |
| | A recent transgenic fly, for example, is proving invaluable in the study of the pathology of the complex human disease, Parkinson's disease. | | | Drosophila has a long history as a model for genetic study -- research began on the fruitfly almost one hundred years ago when Thomas Morgan discovered a mutant fly with white eyes. | | | Since then Drosophila research has contributed many times to developmental biology and biochemistry. |
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http://www.nature.com/genomics/papers/drosophila.html
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| | CiteULike: DrJES3's drosophila |
| | The genetics of germ-line stem cells in Drosophila females and males. | | | Daughterless coordinates somatic cell proliferation, differentiation and germline cyst survival during follicle formation in Drosophila. | | | The Drosophila daughterless gene autoregulates and is controlled by both positive and negative cis regulation. |
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http://www.citeulike.org/user/DrJES3/tag/drosophila
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| | Cooley Lab Home Page |
| | We are studying the regulatory pathways that control the cytoskeletal reorganization during Drosophila egg chamber development. | | | Changes in cell shape and motility that occur throughout the development of an organism require dynamic alterations of the cytoskeleton in response to signaling pathways. |
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http://info.med.yale.edu/cooley
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| | DisHome |
| | Drosophila is one of the premier organisms for studies of genetics, development, population biology, and evolution. | | | Material contributed by Drosophila workers was arranged by C.B. Bridges and M. Demerec. | | | This policy has proved to be a great stimulus for the use of Drosophila material in genetic research and is directly responsible for many important contributions.” During the many decades since that first issue, DIS has continued to promote open communication. |
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http://www.ou.edu/journals/dis
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| | P Elements in Drosophila |
| | Drosophila has long been a favorite organism for genetic and developmental research, but it was largely through the use of P elements that the powerful tools of molecular biology were fully employed. | | | However, P elements have undoubtedly enhanced the fitness of Drosophila geneticists, forming the basis for a variety of techniques that have become essential to most current research with this species. | | | Particular attention has been given to the P family (reviewed by Engels 1989), which has been the subject of intensive research for nearly two decades. |
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http://engels.genetics.wisc.edu/Pelements/Pt.html
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| | Drosophila Development |
| | HOWEVER, cytokinesis (division of the cytoplasm) does not occur in the early Drosophila embryo, resulting in a multinucleate cell called a syncytium, or syncytial blastoderm. | | | Unlike humans, Drosophila is subject to easy genetic manipulation. | | | The Drosophila life cycle consists of a number of stages: embryogenesis, three larval stages, a pupal stage, and (finally) the adult stage! |
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http://biology.kenyon.edu/courses/biol114/Chap13/Chapter_13A.html
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| | BDGP: BDGP Publications |
| | SNP Markers for Genetic Mapping in Drosophila melanogaster | | | Haplotype dimorphism in a SNP collection from Drosophila melanogaster | | | Curated table Fly, worm and yeast genes that are similar to human disease genes. |
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http://www.fruitfly.org/about/pubs
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| | Drosophila.htm |
| | Umeå The European Drosophila Stock Centre at Umea carries the following categories of Drosophila melanogaster stocks: "general stocks", maternal-effect lethals, zygotic lethals, wild-type, as well as non-melanogaster species | | | The rules for the genetic nomenclature of Drosophila melanogaster, as adopted by FlyBase. | | | McGill Drosophila Genome Project was originally launched to generate genetic and molecular data from the 37-38 polytene region. |
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http://biol.org/Drosophila.htm
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| | Completion of the Drosophila genome sequence |
| | This occasion caps a century of ground-breaking discoveries made using Drosophila, several of which were recognized by Nobel prizes. | | | Nearly two-thirds of the genes known to cause human disease are present in the Drosophila genome, including genes responsible for birth defects, neurodegeneration, and cancer. | | | These findings demonstrate that basic research using Drosophila has enormous value in the fight against human disease. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2000-03/UNKN-Cotg-2203100.php
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| | NCBI Drosophila Genome Resources |
| | Drosophila research has provided insights into behavior, development and disease systems. | | | The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is a valuable model organism due to its biological complexity and the ease of genetic manipulation. | | | The genome can be viewed in a chromosomal context with gene annotation, UniGene clusters and gene predictions alongside the genetic map and ideogram. |
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/guide/fly
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| | Physiology or Medicine 1995 - Press Release |
| | The horizontal bars indicate in which areas the homeotic genes 1-9 are active along the body axis. | | | Another developmental gene mutation causes a complete loss of the iris, a condition known as aniridia. | | | Environmental factors such as very high doses of vitamin A during early pregnancy are also known to disturb the regulation of HOX-genes, thus inducing severe congenital malformations. |
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| | Drosophila genome sequence completed |
| | Of the 289 genetic flaws known to cause disease in humans, says Rubin, they have found Drosophila homologues for 60 percent and for 70 percent of the genes involved in human cancers. | | | With less than 15,000 genes in Drosophila, and some 5000 researchers worldwide working on the organism, he says, "that1s one human being for every three genes. | | | March 24, 2000 -- The common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been the workhorse of biology and genetics laboratories for the past 90 years. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2000-03/HHMI-gsc-2303100.php
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| | Genetic nomenclature for Drosophila melanogaster |
| | The rules for the genetic nomenclature of Drosophila melanogaster have evolved over the last 85 years or so. | | | For species other than Drosophila melanogaster, the valid gene symbol follows a species abbreviation indicating the species of origin. | | | Transposons or transgene constructs integrated into the Drosophila genome, if they cause a mutant phenotype, are both alleles and aberrations (similar to other classes of aberrations that are associated with mutant phenotypes). |
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http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/docs/nomenclature/lk/nomenclature.html
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| | Sex-Linked Inheritance |
| | For example, in Drosophila the locus for eye color is located on the X chromosome. | | | The allele for red eye color, which is normal in wild flies, is dominant to the mutant allele for white eyes. | | | Drosophila are used to illustrate how alleles on sex chromosomes are inherited in predictable patterns. |
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http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/sex.html
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| | Fly Development |
| | Compare the role of the homologous genes in the development of Drosophila to the roles of their homologues in other organisms. | | | After the fourteenth nuclear division, cytokinesis of the blastoderm occurs simultaneously over the entire surface of the egg. | | | Prepare a short description of a couple of the Drosophila genes, including their roles in development of that organism. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/virtualembryo/flies.html
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| | Fruit Fly Genetics |
| | The expected recombination frequency between two loci can be ascertained by simply determining the recombination frequency difference between two loci. | | | Balancers are also used to maintain chromosomal deficiencies that would otherwise be lethal due to the deficiency. | | | The number of phenotypic markers available to the geneticists is one factor that makes genetics in Drosophila |
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http://www.hhmi.swmed.edu/Labs/rr/world/fly.html
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| | Expression of human FALS SOD in motorneurons of Drosophila. |
| | Although leading to many experimental advances, this finding has not yet led to a clear understanding of the biochemical mechanism by which mutations in SOD promote the degeneration of motorneurons that causes this incurable paralytic disease. | | | To explore the biochemical mechanism of FALS SOD-mediated neuropathogenesis, we used transgenic methodology to target the expression of a human FALS SOD to motorneurons of Drosophila, an organism known for its phenotypic sensitivity to genetic manipulation of SOD. | | | Earlier, we showed that targeted expression of human SOD in motorneurons of Drosophila causes a dramatic extension of adult lifespan (>40%) and rescues most of the phenotypes of SOD-null mutants. |
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http://www.arclab.org/medlineupdates/abstract_10381207.html
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| | Trans-NIH Fly Initiative |
| | Homophila is a human disease gene-Drosophila gene database, which can be used to identify orthologs of human disease genes in the Drosophila genome. | | | The site has links to other stock centers world-wide, including European stock centers and the supplier of other Drosophila species, the latter of which should be of interest to genomics researchers who want to do cross-species comparisons within the Drosophila genus. | | | “Research Resources for Drosophila: The Expanding Universe” Nature Reviews Genetics, Vol. |
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| | Drosophila on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Relationships between necrotic cactus availability and population size in a cactophilic Drosophila (Diptera, Drosophilidae) located on a sandstone table hill in Brazil. | | | PE Biosystems Designs TaqMan Gene Expression Reagents for All Drosophila -- Fruit Fly -- Genes; Assay reagents developed using Celera Genomics information. | | | Scientists From Celera Genomics Present Drosophila Data At Cold Spring Harbor Scientific Meeting. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-D1rosophi.asp
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| | HOMOPHILA: Number of Drosophila Homologs |
| | White filled bars indicate the percent of unique Drosophila sequences that match one or more human disease gene sequences. | | | Number of Drosophila sequences related to Human disease genes as a function of e-value | | | , more than 50% of human disease genes have matches to Drosophila sequences. |
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http://www.sdsc.edu/mpr/homophila/graph2.html
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| | Drosophila Genome Project |
| | Use of this site is subject to Copyright© and disclaimer | | | Comparison of this species assembly with the recently completed sequence of Drosophila melanogaster is expected to offer important further insights into the biology of this historic model for experimental genetics. | | | The Drosophila Genome Project at the HGSC is sequencing the second Drosophila species: Drosophila pseudoobscura. |
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http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/drosophila
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| | dPUI |
| | Drosophila research at a small scale and limited budget | | | We are in the process of building these web pages so that we can share ideas concerning the different challenges we face as compared to the challenges faced by academicians at large research universities. | | | We are a consortium of faculty who do Drosophila research and teach at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). |
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http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/kahales/PUI/dPUIindex.html
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| | Drosophila definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | One species, Drosophila melanogaster, is a favorite model organism in genetics and developmental biology. | | | Drosophila definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms | | | Please consult your healthcare provider before beginning any course of supplementation or treatment. |
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http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=26697
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| | The Sanger Institute: D.melanogaster |
| | From Sequence to Chromosome: The Tip of the X Chromosome of D. | | | Finished cosmids were submitted to the EMBL database as soon as they were analysed and annotated. | | | As part of the European Drosophila Genome Project The Sanger Institute sequenced cosmids from the X chromosome. |
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http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_melanogaster
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| | Definition of Drosophila from dictionary.net |
| | Define drosophila and 150,000 other words at dictionary.net | | | Includes an index of on-line grammars, word of the day by email, and several pages of linguistic fun. |
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http://www.dictionary.net/drosophila
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| | Drosophila genes/microbial infection |
| | The two last columns indicate the induction level for each gene after septic injury or natural infection by Beauveria bassiana, an entomopathogenic fungus. | | | This page provides a list of both Drosophila genes known to function in immunity and putative Drosophila genes that share homology with genes involved in immune reactions in other organisms (see below). | | | Drosophila genes with potential relevance to the immune response were identified via WU-BLAST 2.0 searches with recognition, signaling, and effector protein sequences against the Drosophila Genome Project blast server that contains 13601 predicted protein-coding genes representing about 99.7% of the genome. |
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http://www.cnrs-gif.fr/cgm/immunity/drosophila_immunity_genes.html
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