Drosophila sechellia
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Drosophila sechellia is a species of fruit fly, used in lab studies of speciation because it can mate with Drosophila simulans.
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Drosophila sechellia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Drosophilidae |
Genus: | Drosophila |
Subgenus: | Sophophora |
Species group: | melanogaster |
Species subgroup: | melanogaster |
Species complex: | simulans |
Species: | D. sechellia |
Binomial name | |
Drosophila sechellia Tsacas and Baechli, 1981 | |
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Drosophila sechellia is endemic to (some of) the Seychelles, and was one of 12 fruit fly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study.[1]