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.

Descriptor ID	D004331
MeSH Number(s)	B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.310.250.500
Concept/Terms	Drosophila melanogaster Drosophila melanogaster Drosophila melanogasters melanogaster, Drosophila D. melanogaster

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Organisms [B]
Eukaryota [B01]
Animals [B01.050]
Invertebrates [B01.050.500]
Arthropods [B01.050.500.131]
Insecta [B01.050.500.131.617]
Pterygota [B01.050.500.131.617.720]
Neoptera [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500]
Holometabola [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500]
Diptera [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750]
Drosophilidae [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.310]
Drosophila [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.310.250]
Drosophila melanogaster [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.310.250.500]

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Bar chart showing 60 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2010

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2002	1	2	3
2003	2	1	3
2004	2	3	5
2005	3	0	3
2006	3	2	5
2007	3	0	3
2008	3	4	7
2009	3	3	6
2010	3	6	9
2011	2	3	5
2012	3	1	4
2013	0	1	1
2014	1	0	1
2015	0	1	1
2016	0	1	1
2017	2	1	3

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Khodaverdian VY, Hanscom T, Yu AM, Yu TL, Mak V, Brown AJ, Roberts SA, McVey M. Secondary structure forming sequences drive SD-MMEJ repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Dec 15; 45(22):12848-12861.

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Oka M, Fujisaki N, Maruko-Otake A, Ohtake Y, Shimizu S, Saito T, Hisanaga SI, Iijima KM, Ando K. Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II promotes neurodegeneration caused by tau phosphorylated at Ser262/356 in a transgenic Drosophila model of tauopathy. J Biochem. 2017 Nov 01; 162(5):335-342.

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Beagan K, Armstrong RL, Witsell A, Roy U, Renedo N, Baker AE, Schärer OD, McVey M. Drosophila DNA polymerase theta utilizes both helicase-like and polymerase domains during microhomology-mediated end joining and interstrand crosslink repair. PLoS Genet. 2017 May; 13(5):e1006813.

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Bauve E, Vernon BC, Ye D, Rogers DM, Siegrist CM, Carson BD, Rempe SB, Zheng A, Kielian M, Shreve AP, Kent MS. Method for measuring the unbinding energy of strongly-bound membrane-associated proteins. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2016 11; 1858(11):2753-2762.

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Zhang K, Donnelly CJ, Haeusler AR, Grima JC, Machamer JB, Steinwald P, Daley EL, Miller SJ, Cunningham KM, Vidensky S, Gupta S, Thomas MA, Hong I, Chiu SL, Huganir RL, Ostrow LW, Matunis MJ, Wang J, Sattler R, Lloyd TE, Rothstein JD. The C9orf72 repeat expansion disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport. Nature. 2015 Sep 03; 525(7567):56-61.

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Mosca TJ, Luo L. Synaptic organization of the Drosophila antennal lobe and its regulation by the Teneurins. Elife. 2014 Oct 13; 3:e03726.

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Honda S, Kirino Y, Maragkakis M, Alexiou P, Ohtaki A, Murali R, Mourelatos Z, Kirino Y. Mitochondrial protein BmPAPI modulates the length of mature piRNAs. RNA. 2013 Oct; 19(10):1405-18.

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Zhang J, Qu X, Covarrubias M, Germann MW. Insight into the modulation of Shaw2 Kv channels by general anesthetics: structural and functional studies of S4-S5 linker and S6 C-terminal peptides in micelles by NMR. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2013 Feb; 1828(2):595-601.

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Jepson JE, Shahidullah M, Lamaze A, Peterson D, Pan H, Koh K. dyschronic, a Drosophila homolog of a deaf-blindness gene, regulates circadian output and Slowpoke channels. PLoS Genet. 2012; 8(4):e1002671.

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Hong W, Mosca TJ, Luo L. Teneurins instruct synaptic partner matching in an olfactory map. Nature. 2012 Mar 18; 484(7393):201-7.

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