🪰Drosophila melanogaster

Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830

Bananflue (Drosophila melanogaster) er en art i slægten bananfluer (eddikefluer). Drosophila melanogaster er almindeligt anvendt i genetiske eksperimenter, fordi den har kort reproduktionstid, er genetisk simpel og har fået kortlagt sit DNA. Den er let og billig at formere. Fluen er brun og har en størrelse på ca. 1-2,5 mm. Den har fået sit navn, da den bl.a. kan lægge sine æg på bananer Thomas Hunt Morgan blev tildelt Nobelprisen i fysiologi eller medicin i 1933 for hans videnskabelige arbejde med bananfluens genetik begyndende i 1910 med hans opdagelse af en hvidøjet mutation.

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Also called

fruit fly, vinegar fly

Conservation status

Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Drosophila melanogaster yet.

Key measurements

Body mass: not recorded
Body length: not recorded
Shoulder height: not recorded
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: not recorded
Maximum lifespan: 0.3 years

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Everything we know about the Drosophila melanogaster

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Maximum lifespan

0.3 years

AnAge

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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Not recorded for Drosophila melanogaster yet: body mass, body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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kingdomMetazoa
phylumArthropoda
subphylumHexapoda
classInsects · Insecta
subclassPterygota
orderFlies · Diptera
suborderBrachycera
subfamilyDrosophilinae

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