| new results on the genetic characteristics of the far east race of drosophila melanogaster. | | 1976 | 829088 |
| p elements and p-m characteristics in natural populations of drosophila melanogaster in the southernmost islands of japan and in taiwan. | in order to study p element dynamics in natural populations of drosophila melanogaster, 126 isofemale lines were examined from seven of the southernmost islands of japan (the sakishima islands) and from taiwan. gonadal dysgenesis (gd) tests showed large divergences in the p-m phenotypes (p inducing and p repressing abilities) between the island populations. the p-m characteristics of each population, however, had not greatly changed in the past 15 years. their genomic p element profiles are high ... | 2001 | 11380666 |
| α-amanitin resistance in drosophila melanogaster: a genome-wide association approach. | we investigated the mechanisms of mushroom toxin resistance in the drosophila genetic reference panel (dgrp) fly lines, using genome-wide association studies (gwas). while drosophila melanogaster avoids mushrooms in nature, some lines are surprisingly resistant to α-amanitin-a toxin found solely in mushrooms. this resistance may represent a pre-adaptation, which might enable this species to invade the mushroom niche in the future. although our previous microarray study had strongly suggested tha ... | 2017 | 28241077 |
| long-term resistance of drosophila melanogaster to the mushroom toxin alpha-amanitin. | insect resistance to toxins exerts not only a great impact on our economy, but also on the ecology of many species. resistance to one toxin is often associated with cross-resistance to other, sometimes unrelated, chemicals. in this study, we investigated mushroom toxin resistance in the fruit fly drosophila melanogaster (meigen). this fruit fly species does not feed on mushrooms in nature and may thus have evolved cross-resistance to α-amanitin, the principal toxin of deadly poisonous mushrooms, ... | 2015 | 25978397 |