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Drosophila melanogaster side (aka)🪰

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SpeciesDipteraDrosophilidae
Arthropods

🪰Drosophila melanogaster

Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830

キイロショウジョウバエ（黄色猩々蝿）は、ハエ目（双翅目）・ショウジョウバエ科の昆虫である。 生物学の様々な分野でモデル生物として用いられ、多くの発見がなされた。特に遺伝学的解析に優れた性質をもつ。単にショウジョウバエといえば本種を指すことも多い。

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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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Facts and figures

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
Details ↓

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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderDiptera
  5. ›familyDrosophilidae
  6. ›genusDrosophila
  7. ›speciesDrosophila melanogaster
Full lineage
  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderFlies · Diptera
  3. suborderBrachycera
  4. subfamilyDrosophilinae
All 8 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. orderFlies · Diptera
  7. suborderBrachycera
  8. subfamilyDrosophilinae
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Drosophila melanogaster (es), bananflue (nb), Drosophila melanogaster (de), banaanikärpänen (fi), Drosophila melanogaster (fr), wywilżna karłowata (pl) … and 25 more languages

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