DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Drosophila melanogaster mean? 

• DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (noun)
  The noun DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER has 1 sense:

1. small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance

  Familiarity information: DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (noun)

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Meaning:

Small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

drosophila; Drosophila melanogaster

Hypernyms ("Drosophila melanogaster" is a kind of...):

fruit fly; pomace fly (any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits)

Holonyms ("Drosophila melanogaster" is a member of...):

genus Drosophila (a genus of Drosophilidae)

 Context examples 

Highly conserved DNA sequences which have been identified in specific gene transcripts ranging from those of Drosophila melanogaster to mouse and human.

(Homeobox Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The Fly Facility Shared Resource provides housing for collection of the standard wild type and mutant strains of Drosophila melanogaster and all services related to maintenance of fly stocks.

(Fly Facility Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

In 2007, NHGRI launched modENCODE to catalog functional elements in the Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm) and Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) genomes.

(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)