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

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

Sequenced genomes or transcriptomes

• Drosophila guttifera^[3]
• Drosophila neotestacea^[4]
• Drosophila innubila^[5]
• Drosophila falleni^[5]
• Drosophila phalerata^[5]

Gallery

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

References

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.
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.
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.
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.

External links

• Diptera.info