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Definition of Genus drosophila

1. Noun. A genus of Drosophilidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Drosophila

Literary usage of Genus drosophila

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Exploring the Borderlands: Documents Of The Committee On Common Problems Of by Joe Cain (2004)
"The genus Drosophila offers unusual opportunities for a study of some of these questions. Thru [sic] the pioneering work of Morgan, Bridges, Muller, ..."

2. The North American Species of Drosophila by Alfred Henry Sturtevant (1921)
"A synopsis of the Nearctic species of the genus Drosophila (sensu lato). Bull. Amer. ... Flies of the genus Drosophila as possible disease carriers. Jour. ..."

3. Insects Injurious to the Household and Annoying to Man by Glenn Washington Herrick (1914)
"Fifty-nine species of the genus Drosophila have been listed as occurring in ... The flies of the genus Drosophila, for the most part, breed in decaying and ..."

4. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy Of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Staff, Caroline K. McEuen (1980)
"The culmination of this was Stone's only book, Evolution in the genus drosophila, coauthored with Patterson. However, he and Patterson edited a series of ..."

5. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1902)
"The little fruit flies of the genus Drosophila (tig. 14), which breed in over- Flo. 17.—Tsetse fly—enlarged (original). ..."

6. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society by Hawaiian Entomological Society (1906)
"... and most likely parasitic on the larvae of the small flies of the genus Drosophila, in company with which I have elsewhere noticed them. ..."

7. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"I. A Preliminary Survey of Five Different Types of Chromosome Groups in the Genus Drosophila. Journ. Exper. Zoöl., Vol. 17. No. i. ..."

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