31. Empirically, nonsynonymous substitutions have been reported to proliferate through weak selection in Drosophila melanogaster and Arabidopsis. 32. Hemocytes in " Drosophila melanogaster " can be divided into two categories : embryonic and larval. 33. Thomas Hunt Morgan later showed that a new white-eye mutation in Drosophila melanogaster was also sex-linked. 34. A transposon, such as the " Drosophila melanogaster " 35. Drosophila melanogaster has, perhaps, a fourth great gift of knowledge still concealed within its frail, miraculous body.36. PAX2 encodes paired box gene 2, one of many human homologues of the Drosophila melanogaster gene prd. 37. He independently discovered homeobox genes in Drosophila melanogaster working with Amy J . Weiner at Indiana University. 38. The fruit fly " Drosophila melanogaster " made the jump from nature to laboratory animal in 1901. 39. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster lacks both shelterin and telomerase, but instead uses retrotransposons to maintain telomeres. 40. I have seen and raised the maggots of " Drosophila melanogaster " in genetics lab in college.
