 Drosophila melanogaster
"Drosophila melanogaster" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of fruit fly frequently used in genetics because of the large size of its chromosomes.
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D004331
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.310.250.500
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drosophila melanogaster" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drosophila melanogaster" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1998 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1999 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2000 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2003 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2004 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2005 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2006 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2007 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2008 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2009 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2010 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2011 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2012 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2013 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2014 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2015 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2016 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 2017 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2018 | 5 | 7 | 12 | | 2019 | 8 | 4 | 12 | | 2020 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2021 | 4 | 6 | 10 | | 2022 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2023 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2025 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2026 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drosophila melanogaster" by people in Profiles.
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Schlomann BH, Pai TW, Sandhu J, Ferrer Imbert G, Graham TGW, Garcia HG. Spatial microenvironments tune immune response dynamics in the Drosophila larval fat body. PLoS Genet. 2026 Feb; 22(2):e1012029.
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Moon SJ, Hu Y, Dzieciatkowska M, Kim AR, Asara JM, D'Alessandro A, Perrimon N. Modeling tissue-specific Drosophila metabolism identifies high sugar diet-induced metabolic dysregulation in muscle at reaction and pathway levels. Nat Commun. 2026 Jan 19; 17(1):1692.
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Vidrio JR, Hahn DA, Moore MP, Ragland GJ. When is RCH not RCH? Rapid cold hardening has steep temperature thresholds inducing high survival but low fertility resilience to cold stress. J Exp Biol. 2026 Jan 15; 229(2).
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Lindsey ARI, Tennessen JM, Gelaw MA, Jones MW, Parish AJ, Newton ILG, Nemkov T, D'Alessandro A, Rai M, Stark N. The intracellular symbiont Wolbachia alters Drosophila development and metabolism to buffer against nutritional stress. PLoS Genet. 2025 Oct; 21(10):e1011905.
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Rai M, Okah P, Shefali SA, Fitt AJ, Shen MZ, Molomjamts M, Pepin R, Nemkov T, D'Alessandro A, Tennessen JM. New alleles of D-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase enable studies of oncometabolite function in Drosophila melanogaster. G3 (Bethesda). 2025 Aug 06; 15(8).
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Hingole S, Verma K, Chaudhary V. Frizzled1 and Frizzled2 are not redundant for competitive survival under low-Wingless levels in the developing Drosophila wing epithelium. Open Biol. 2025 Jan; 15(7):240381.
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Duncalf L, Wang X, Aljabri AA, Campbell AE, Alharbi RQ, Donaldson I, Hayes A, Peti W, Page R, Bennett D. PNUTS:PP1 recruitment to Tox4 regulates chromosomal dispersal in Drosophila germline development. Cell Rep. 2025 May 27; 44(5):115693.
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Rai M, Li H, Policastro RA, Pepin R, Zentner GE, Nemkov T, D'Alessandro A, Tennessen JM. Glycolytic disruption restricts Drosophila melanogaster larval growth via the cytokine Upd3. PLoS Genet. 2025 May; 21(5):e1011690.
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Diaz AV, Tekin I, Reis T. Drosophila as a Genetic Model System to Study Organismal Energy Metabolism. Biomolecules. 2025 05 01; 15(5).
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Zhang X, Su KJ, Banerjee B, Eres I, Hsu YH, Crandall CJ, Donaka R, Han Z, Jackson RD, Liu H, Luo Z, Mitchell BD, Qiu C, Tian Q, Shen H, Tsai MJ, Wiggins KL, Xu H, Yau M, Zhao LJ, Zhang X, Montasser ME, Kiel DP, Deng HW, Liu CT, Karasik D. Multi-ancestry whole genome sequencing analysis of lean body mass. Genome Biol. 2025 Apr 28; 26(1):106.
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