''Drosophila ananassae'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of fruit fly that is a useful model organism for genetic studies because it is easily cultured in the laboratory, and was one of 12 fruitfly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study. Drosophila_ananassae_female

References

External links

''Drosophila ananassae'' at FlyBase

''Drosophila ananassae'' at Ensembl Genomes Metazoa
* A {{Drosophilidae-stub