The immigrans-tripunctata radiation is a speciose lineage of ''
Drosophila
''Drosophila'' () is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or (less frequently) pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many species ...
'' flies, including over 300 species.
The immigrans-tripunctata radiation is a sister lineage to most other members of the subgenus Drosophila.
A number of species have had their genomes or transcriptomes sequenced for evolutionary studies using ''Drosophila''.
Species groups
The following species groups and numbers largely derive from O'Grady (2018).
[
* Immigrans species group (106 species)][
* Tripunctata species group (83 species)][
* Quinaria species group (35 species)][
* Guarani species group (24 species)][
* Calloptera species group (8 species)][
* Bizonata species group (7 species)][
* Funebris species group (7 species)][
* Testacea species group (4 species)][
]
Sequenced genomes or transcriptomes
The following species have extensive genetic sequence data available. '' ast updated: 24 August 2019'
Quinaria species group
* ''Drosophila guttifera
''Drosophila guttifera'' is a species of vinegar fly in the Drosophila quinaria species group. Like many quinaria group species, ''D. guttifera'' feeds on rotting mushrooms.
In 2015, the genome of ''Drosophila guttifera'' was sequenced by the ...
''Drosophila innubila
''Drosophila innubila'' is a species of vinegar fly restricted to high-elevation woodlands in the mountains of the southern USA and Mexico, which it likely colonized during the last glacial period. ''Drosophila innubila'' is a kind of mushroom-b ...
''Drosophila falleni
.
''Drosophila falleni'' is a species of fly found in northeastern North America. A mycophagous insect, it is known to feed on the fruit bodies (mushrooms) of several genera of fungi, including ''Agaricus'', ''Amanita'', ''Agrocybe'', ''Boletus'', ...
''Drosophila albomicans
''Drosophila albomicans'' is a species of vinegar fly in the family Drosophilidae. ''Drosophila albomicans'' is a member of the Immigrans-tripunctata radiation of the subgenus Drosophila. The ''D. albomicans'' genome was first sequenced in 2012 ...
''Drosophila neotestacea
''Drosophila neotestacea'' is a member of the ''testacea'' species group of ''Drosophila''. Testacea species are specialist fruit flies that breed on the fruiting bodies of mushrooms. These flies will choose to breed on psychoactive mushrooms s ...
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Gallery
File: Drosophila immigrans side on (14412343468).jpg , '' D. immigrans'' ( Immigrans species group)
File: Dinnubila4.tif , '' D. innubila'' ( Quinaria species group)
File: Dfun-male.tif, ''Drosophila funebris
''Drosophila funebris'' is a species of fruit fly. It was originally described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787, and placed in the genus ''Musca'' but is now the type species of the paraphyletic genus ''Drosophila''. ''Drosophila funebris'' ...
'' ( Funebris species group)
File: Dneotestacea3.tif , '' D. neotestacea'' ( Testacea species group)
References
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Drosophila
Insect species groups