drosophila
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See also: Drosophila
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Etymology
From the genus name Drosophila.
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drosophila (plural drosophilas or drosophilae)
- Any fruit fly of the genus Drosophila
A drosophila - 2006, Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, page 127:
- In contrast, the drosophilas of Hawaii owe their oddity entirely to the whims of natural selection.
- 2013, Graham G. Stewart, Inge Russell, Advances in Biotechnology: Proceedings of the Fifth International Yeast Symposium Held in London, Canada, July 20-25, 1980, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 494:
- Moreover, the host plant relationships of cactus-specific drosophilae which serve as dispersal agents are well known (Fellows and Heed, 1972; Heed, 1978). The discussion which follows is based on the above studies of yeasts, cacti and drosophilae.
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