Drosophila

"Drosophila" 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 genus of small, two-winged flies containing approximately 900 described species. These organisms are the most extensively studied of all genera from the standpoint of genetics and cytology.

Descriptor ID	D004330
MeSH Number(s)	B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.310.250
Concept/Terms	Drosophila Drosophila Drosophilas Fruit Fly, Drosophila Drosophila Fruit Flies Drosophila Fruit Fly Flies, Drosophila Fruit Fly, Drosophila Fruit Fruit Flies, Drosophila

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Drosophila".

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]

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Bar chart showing 137 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2007

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	2	3
1997	1	1	2
1998	3	1	4
1999	1	1	2
2000	0	1	1
2001	0	2	2
2002	3	0	3
2003	4	5	9
2004	3	3	6
2005	2	0	2
2006	3	2	5
2007	9	2	11
2008	2	1	3
2009	2	4	6
2010	2	4	6
2011	3	4	7
2012	2	4	6
2013	4	5	9
2014	0	2	2
2015	1	3	4
2016	3	2	5
2017	2	5	7
2018	1	4	5
2019	1	1	2
2020	0	8	8
2021	2	1	3
2022	0	2	2
2023	2	3	5
2024	1	3	4
2025	0	3	3

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Mayerlen LI, Wong TAS, To A, Smith O, Chuang E, Donini O, Lehrer AT. Thermostable bivalent & trivalent filovirus vaccines from insect cells: potency demonstrated after 3?months and 2?years. Vaccine. 2025 Oct 03; 64:127684.

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Stephens MC, Li J, Mair M, Moore J, Zhu K, Tarkunde A, Amoh B, Perez AM, Bhakare A, Guo F, Shulman JM, Al-Ramahi I, Botas J. Computational and functional prioritization identifies genes that rescue behavior and reduce tau protein in fly and human cell models of Alzheimer disease. Am J Hum Genet. 2025 May 01; 112(5):1081-1096.

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Spargo TP, Sands CF, Juan IR, Mitchell J, Ravanmehr V, Butts JC, De-Paula RB, Kim Y, Hu F, Wang Q, Vitsios D, Garg M, Middleton L, Tyrlik M, Messa M, Del Angel G, Calame DG, Saade H, Robak L, Hollis B, Cuddapah VA, Zoghbi HY, Shulman JM, Petrovski S, Al-Ramahi I, Tachmazidou I, Dhindsa RS. Haploinsufficiency of ITSN1 is associated with a substantial increased risk of Parkinson's disease. Cell Rep. 2025 Mar 25; 44(3):115355.

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Goodman LD, Ralhan I, Li X, Lu S, Moulton MJ, Park YJ, Zhao P, Kanca O, Ghaderpour Taleghani ZS, Jacquemyn J, Shulman JM, Ando K, Sun K, Ioannou MS, Bellen HJ. Tau is required for glial lipid droplet formation and resistance to neuronal oxidative stress. Nat Neurosci. 2024 Oct; 27(10):1918-1933.

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Eichler K, Hampel S, Alejandro-Garc?a A, Calle-Schuler SA, Santana-Cruz A, Kmecova L, Blagburn JM, Hoopfer ED, Seeds AM. Somatotopic organization among parallel sensory pathways that promote a grooming sequence in Drosophila. Elife. 2024 Apr 18; 12.

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Liang Z, Candib A, Soriano-Castell D, Fischer W, Finley K, Maher P. Fragment-based drug discovery and biological evaluation of novel cannabinol-based inhibitors of oxytosis/ferroptosis for neurological disorders. Redox Biol. 2024 06; 72:103138.

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Mayerlen LI, Wong TAS, Lehrer AT. A Microsphere Immunoassay for the Quantitative Detection of Antigens in Cell Culture Supernatant. Methods Mol Biol. 2024; 2829:277-286.

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Guntur AR, Smith JE, Brahmandam A, DeBauche P, Cronmiller C, Lundell MJ. ZFH-2 is required for Drosophila ovarian follicle development and is expressed at the band/interband boundaries of polytene chromosomes. Dev Biol. 2023 12; 504:1-11.

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Weaver KJ, Raju S, Rucker RA, Chakraborty T, Holt RA, Pletcher SD. Behavioral dissection of hunger states in Drosophila. Elife. 2023 06 16; 12.

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Wu T, Deger JM, Ye H, Guo C, Dhindsa J, Pekarek BT, Al-Ouran R, Liu Z, Al-Ramahi I, Botas J, Shulman JM. Tau polarizes an aging transcriptional signature to excitatory neurons and glia. Elife. 2023 05 23; 12.

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