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Drosophila melanogaster

"Drosophila melanogaster" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A species of fruit fly frequently used in genetics because of the large size of its chromosomes.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drosophila melanogaster" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drosophila melanogaster" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 39 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2006 and 2010
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