drosophila

plural drosophilas · plural drosophilae

1. Any fruit fly of the genus Drosophila

   In contrast, the drosophilas of Hawaii owe their oddity entirely to the whims of natural selection.

   2006, Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, page 127

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   Moreover, the host plant relationships of cactus-specific drosophilae which serve as dispersal agents are well known (Fellows and Heed, 1972; Heed, 1978). The discussion which follows is based on the above studies of yeasts, cacti and drosophilae.

   2013, Graham G. Stewart, Inge Russell, Advances in Biotechnology: Proceedings of the Fifth International Yeast Symposium Held in London, Canada, July 20-25, 1980, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 494