Drosophila yakuba
| Drosophila yakuba | |
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Binomial name | |
| Drosophila yakuba Burla, 1954
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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]
References
- ^ Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium; et al. (2007). "Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny" (PDF). Nature. 450 (7167): 203–218. Bibcode:2007Natur.450..203C. doi:10.1038/nature06341. PMID 17994087.
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External links
Wikispecies has information related to Drosophila yakuba.
- 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