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 to study the evolution of novel sex chromosomes, a characteristic this species is best known for.[1] One commonly accepted definition of the biological species concept is that individuals or populations are members of different species if they are incapable of successful interbreeding. While D. albomicans and Drosophila nasuta are commonly referred to as distinct species, there appears to be little to no sexual isolation between these two Drosophila species. Instead, behavioural differences appear to reproductively isolate these two species.[2]

Drosophila albomicans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Drosophilidae
Genus: Drosophila
Species:
D. albomicans
Binomial name
Drosophila albomicans
Duda, 1923

The Immigrans species group (to which D. albomicans belongs) is related to the Drosophila quinaria and Drosophila testacea species groups. The related species Drosophila immigrans has been used in evolutionary studies to understand how viruses evolve with their hosts.[3]

References
  1. Zhou, Qi; Zhu, Hong-mei; Huang, Quan-fei; Xuan, Zhao-lin; Zhang, Guo-jie; Zhao, Li; Ding, Yun; Roy, Scott; Vicoso, Beatriz; Ruan, Jue; Zhang, Yue; Zhao, Ruo-Ping; Mu, Bo; Min, Jiu-Meng; Zhang, Qing-hui; Li, Jian-wen; Luo, Yin-Ling; Liang, Zu-Heng; Ye, Chen; Li, Rui-Qiang; Zhang, Xiu-Qing; Wang, Jun; Wang, Wen; Bachtrog, Doris (2012). "Deciphering neo-sex and B chromosome evolution by the draft genome of Drosophila albomicans". BMC Genomics. 13: 109. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-109. PMC 3353239. PMID 22439699.
  2. Kim, Yong-Kyu; Phillips, Dennis R.; Tao, Yun (2013). "Evidence for no sexual isolation between Drosophila albomicansandD. Nasuta". Ecology and Evolution. 3 (7): 2061–2074. doi:10.1002/ece3.619. PMC 3728947. PMID 23919152.
  3. "Abstract". doi:10.7554/eLife.46440.001. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Further reading
  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada. ISBN 978-0660121253.
  • Miller, Meredith E.; Marshall, Stephen A.; Grimaldi, David A. (2017). "A Review of the Species of Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and Genera of Drosophilidae of Northeastern North America". Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification.


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