''Drosophila erecta'' is a West African
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, and was one of 12 fruit fly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study.
References
External links
''Drosophila erecta'' at FlyBase''Drosophila erecta'' at Ensembl Genomes Metazoa*
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