Drosophila sechellia
| Drosophila sechellia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Drosophilidae |
| Genus: | Drosophila |
| Subgenus: | Sophophora |
| Species group: | melanogaster group |
| Species subgroup: | melanogaster subgroup |
| Species: | D. sechellia |
| Binomial name | |
| Drosophila sechellia Tsacas and Baechli, 1981 | |
Drosophila sechellia is a species of fruit fly, used in lab studies of speciation because can mate with Drosophila simulans.
Drosophila sechellia is endemic to (some of) the Seychelles, and was one of 12 fruit fly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study. [1]
References
- ↑ Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium; et al. (2007). "Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny". Nature 450 (7167): 203–218. doi:10.1038/nature06341. PMID 17994087.
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