释义 |
fruit fly  nounA small fly which feeds on fruit in both its adult and larval stages.- Families Drosophilidae and Tephritidae: many genera. See also drosophila.
To elucidate the cellular functions of NSF, we have chosen to use a genetic approach in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster....- The first mutations of a single gene affecting the daily locomotion rhythm were found in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
- Hox genes were discovered through the study of the fruit fly.
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