Mushroom-feeding Drosophila

Mushroom-feeding Drosophila (mycophagous Drosophila) are a subset of Drosophila flies that have highly specific mushroom-breeding ecologies. Often these flies can tolerate toxic compounds from Amanita mushrooms.^[1]^[2]

*Drosophila innubila*, a mycophagous *Drosophila*, on a mushroom

Species groups edit

Drosophila testacea species group
Drosophila quinaria species group
Drosophila bizonata species group
Some members of the Drosophila obscura species group

Sequenced genomes or transcriptomes edit

Gallery edit

D. neotestacea (Testacea species group)
D. testacea (Testacea species group)
D. innubila (Quinaria species group)
Drosophila guttifera (Quinaria species group)
Drosophila phalerata (Quinaria species group)
A dissected Drosophila falleni (Quinaria species group) infected with Howardula aoronymphium nematodes

References edit

^ Jaenike, John (1978). "Host Selection by Mycophagous Drosophila". Ecology. 50 (6): 1286–1288. doi:10.2307/1938245. JSTOR 1938245.
^ Tuno, Nobuko; Takahashi, Kazuo H.; Yamashita, Hiroshi; Osawa, Naoya; Tanaka, Chihiro (1 February 2007). "Tolerance of Drosophila Flies to Ibotenic Acid Poisons in Mushrooms". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 33 (2): 311–317. doi:10.1007/s10886-006-9228-3. PMID 17195114. S2CID 5625446.
^ Koshikawa, Shigeyuki; Giorgianni, Matt W.; Vaccaro, Kathy; Kassner, Victoria A.; Yoder, John H.; Werner, Thomas; Carroll, Sean B. (2015). "Gain of cis-regulatory activities underlies novel domains of wingless gene expression in Drosophila". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (24): 7524–9. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.7524K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1509022112. PMC 4475944. PMID 26034272.
^ Hamilton, P. T.; Leong, J. S.; Koop, B. F.; Perlman, S. J. (2014). "Transcriptional responses in a Drosophila defensive symbiosis". Molecular Ecology. 23 (6): 1558–70. doi:10.1111/mec.12603. PMID 24274471. S2CID 2964885.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hill, T.; Koseva, B. S.; Unckless, R. L. (2019). "genome of Drosophila innubila reveals lineage-specific patterns of selection in immune genes | Molecular Biology and Evolution | Oxford Academic". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36 (7): 1405–1417. doi:10.1093/molbev/msz059. PMC 6573480. PMID 30865231.

External links edit

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[1] Jaenike, John (1978). "Host Selection by Mycophagous Drosophila". Ecology. 50 (6): 1286–1288. doi:10.2307/1938245. JSTOR 1938245.

[2] Tuno, Nobuko; Takahashi, Kazuo H.; Yamashita, Hiroshi; Osawa, Naoya; Tanaka, Chihiro (1 February 2007). "Tolerance of Drosophila Flies to Ibotenic Acid Poisons in Mushrooms". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 33 (2): 311–317. doi:10.1007/s10886-006-9228-3. PMID 17195114. S2CID 5625446.

[pnas-3] Koshikawa, Shigeyuki; Giorgianni, Matt W.; Vaccaro, Kathy; Kassner, Victoria A.; Yoder, John H.; Werner, Thomas; Carroll, Sean B. (2015). "Gain of cis-regulatory activities underlies novel domains of wingless gene expression in Drosophila". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (24): 7524–9. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.7524K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1509022112. PMC 4475944. PMID 26034272.

[wiley-4] Hamilton, P. T.; Leong, J. S.; Koop, B. F.; Perlman, S. J. (2014). "Transcriptional responses in a Drosophila defensive symbiosis". Molecular Ecology. 23 (6): 1558–70. doi:10.1111/mec.12603. PMID 24274471. S2CID 2964885.

[oup-5] Hill, T.; Koseva, B. S.; Unckless, R. L. (2019). "genome of Drosophila innubila reveals lineage-specific patterns of selection in immune genes | Molecular Biology and Evolution | Oxford Academic". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36 (7): 1405–1417. doi:10.1093/molbev/msz059. PMC 6573480. PMID 30865231.

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