Crossword clues for drosophila
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scientific name of a fruit fly, 1829, from Modern Latin (Fallén, 1823), from Greek drosos "dew" + philos "loving" see -phile).
Wiktionary
n. Any fruit fly of the genus ''Drosophila''
WordNet
n. small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance [syn: Drosophila melanogaster]
[also: drosophilae (pl)]
Wikipedia
Drosophila is a genus of small flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "fruit flies" or (less frequently) pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many species to linger around overripe or rotting fruit. They should not be confused with the Tephritidae, a related family, which are also called fruit flies (sometimes referred to as "true fruit flies"); tephritids feed primarily on unripe or ripe fruit, with many species being regarded as destructive agricultural pests, especially the Mediterranean fruit fly. One species of Drosophila in particular, D. melanogaster, has been heavily used in research in genetics and is a common model organism in developmental biology. The terms "fruit fly" and "Drosophila" are often used synonymously with D. melanogaster in modern biological literature. The entire genus, however, contains more than 1,500 species and is very diverse in appearance, behavior, and breeding habitat.
The paraphyletic subgenus Drosophila of the genus Drosophila was first described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1939.
Usage examples of "drosophila".
Drosophila melanogaster, which gathers like specks of coal dust, seemingly magnetically attracted to over-ripe fruit.
She knew it when she looked small enclosure swarming with Drosophila melanogaster, the vinegar fruit fly.
One of them pointed to Bill, and the two spoke for a while, and the first one started over toward Bill, but the Resistance leader who had collected Bill, Commandante Luther Anastasius Lambert Hendricks Bavan Drosophila Melanogaster Farkleheimer, cut them off before they could get within speaking distance, ordered them out of the room.
From this and other types of experiment, it is beyond dispute that, even by the most rigid of the criteria used by mammalian psychologists, Drosophila show not merely habituation and sensitization but classical and operant conditioning based on visual, olfactory and even touch cues.
Naturally he had nothing whatever to do with these Morganists--Mendelians--Weissmannites who merely built castles in the air with their drosophilas, completely divorced from reality.
For the bulk of this century a favoured organism for geneticists to study, because of the ease with which it can be maintained, its rapid breeding cycle and the possibility of studying populations of many thousands, has been the tiny fruit fly (sometimes called vinegar fly), Drosophila melanogaster, which gathers like specks of coal dust, seemingly magnetically attracted to over-ripe fruit.
I'd been looking at one of Slavsky's books, at a coloured illustration of the nervous system of the Drosophila melanogaster, while I was mentally going through the details of my cover.
The fact is that this bird will pick up fruit flies unerringly, only those, only the one species Drosophila melanogaster.