Comparing fruit fly features (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Comparing fruit fly features

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Electron microscopy images contrast the smooth and spongy features of the common Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly (left) and the grill-like features of its rarer cousin, the Hawaiian Drosophila mimica.

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Bier Lab, UC San Diego

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Must be used in conjunction with Science Advances paper on fruit fly Hox genes.

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