Drosophila phalerata explained
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]
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Notes and References
- Hill . Tom . Koseva . Boryana S . Unckless . Robert L . Singh . Nadia . The genome of Drosophila innubila reveals lineage-specific patterns of selection in immune genes . Molecular Biology and Evolution . 13 March 2019 . 10.1093/molbev/msz059 . 30865231 . free . 36 . 7 . 6573480 . 1405–1417 .
- Koshikawa S, Giorgianni MW, Vaccaro K, Kassner VA, Yoder JH, Werner T, Carroll SB . 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 . 26034272 . 4475944 . 10.1073/pnas.1509022112 . 2015PNAS..112.7524K .
