Drosophila yakuba

Summary

Drosophila yakuba is an African species of fruit fly that is predominantly found in open savanna, and was one of 12 fruit fly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study.[1]

Drosophila yakuba
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Drosophilidae
Genus: Drosophila
Subgenus: Sophophora
Species group: melanogaster
Species subgroup: melanogaster
Species complex: yakuba
Species:
D. yakuba
Binomial name
Drosophila yakuba
Burla, 1954

References edit

  1. ^ Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium; et al. (2007). "Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny". Nature. 450 (7167): 203–218. Bibcode:2007Natur.450..203C. doi:10.1038/nature06341. PMID 17994087.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links edit

  • Drosophila yakuba at FlyBase
  • Drosophila yakuba at Ensembl Genomes Metazoa
  • Drosophila yakuba sequenced by the Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • View the droYak2 genome assembly in the UCSC Genome Browser.