RevieweLife2015
The secret lives of Drosophila flies.
Review in eLife, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 118 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
118 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The evolutionary trajectory of drosophilid walking.Current biology : CB · 2022Pooled it
- Genomic signatures of cold adaptation in a Himalayan drosophilid.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- Mating imperatives drive plasticity of the daily temporal niche in fruit flies.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Gut-derived Unpaired-3 cytokine signaling promotes systemic hypoxia tolerance in Drosophila.Disease models & mechanisms · 2026Article
- The Cellular and Circuit Basis of Temperature Sensation inAnnual review of neuroscience · 2026Review
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- Beyond the Black Box: Reproductive Strategies of the Black Soldier Fly as a Model for Bridging Evolutionary Biology and Applied Entomology.Evolutionary applications · 2026Review
- Characterization of the post-mating responses of Drosophila hydei, a species that lacks Sex-Peptide.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the Dual Impact of Nanotechnologies on Health and Environment Through Alternative Bridging Models.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Review
- Negative allometry of egg size among 29 species of drosophilid flies.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Strain variation identifies a neural substrate for behavioral evolution in Drosophila.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
- Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior inScience advances · 2026Article
- Evolutionary Divergence of mTOR-mediated Transcriptional Regulation BetweenbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Ecology and Diversity of UrbanEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Variation in the resource environment affects patterns of seasonal adaptation at phenotypic and genomic levels inEvolution letters · 2025Article
- Diversity of Yeast and Drosophila Species Associated with Grape Sour Rot in China.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Thermal variability and diet interaction as driver of developmental overwintering in Drosophila buzzatii.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- When noncanonical olfaction is optimal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- dArc1 controls sugar reward valuation in Drosophila melanogaster.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Developing heterospecific sterile insect technique for pest control: insights from the spotted wing fly Drosophila suzukii.Pest management science · 2025Article
58 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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1 author.
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Abstract
Flies of the genus Drosophila, and particularly those of the species Drosophila melanogaster, are best known as laboratory organisms. As with all model organisms, they were domesticated for empirical studies, but they also continue to exist as wild populations. Decades of research on these flies in the laboratory have produced astounding and important insights into basic biological processes, but we have only scratched the surface of what they have to offer as research organisms. An outstanding challenge now is to build on this knowledge and explore how natural history has shaped D. melanogaster in order to advance our understanding of biology more generally.
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