"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.
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
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.310.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Drosophila- Drosophila
- Drosophilas
- Fruit Fly, Drosophila
- Drosophila Fruit Flies
- Drosophila Fruit Fly
- Flies, Drosophila Fruit
- Fly, Drosophila Fruit
- Fruit Flies, Drosophila
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drosophila" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drosophila" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1997 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| 1998 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 1999 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2000 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2001 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2002 | 10 | 12 | 22 |
| 2003 | 17 | 13 | 30 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9 | 16 |
| 2005 | 12 | 4 | 16 |
| 2006 | 15 | 7 | 22 |
| 2007 | 15 | 6 | 21 |
| 2008 | 11 | 8 | 19 |
| 2009 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2010 | 13 | 5 | 18 |
| 2011 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2012 | 13 | 6 | 19 |
| 2013 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| 2014 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2015 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2017 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2020 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2021 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2022 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2023 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2024 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drosophila" by people in Profiles.
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Rice NP, Ho S, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE. Rapid disassembly and Piwi-independent reassembly of Drosophila piRNA cluster heterochromatin following acute heat shock. RNA. 2026 02 17; 32(3):359-378.
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Ho S, Rice NP, Yu T, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE. Aub, Vasa, and Armi concentration in phase-separated nuage is dispensable for piRNA biogenesis and transposon silencing. RNA. 2026 02 17; 32(3):341-358.
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Jun YW, Lee S, Almeida S, Freude KK, Ichida JK, Gao FB. The Ku80-p53-SIRT1 axis in DNA damage response contributes to sporadic and familial ALS and FTD. Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 20; 17(1):1007.
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Xia Y, Chen C, Emery P. miR-124 acts During Drosophila Development to Determine the Phase of Adult Circadian Behavior. J Biol Rhythms. 2025 Dec; 40(6):574-593.
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Cacchione S, Cenci G, Dion-C?t? AM, Barbash DA, Raffa GD. Maintaining Telomeres without Telomerase in Drosophila: Novel Mechanisms and Rapid Evolution to Save a Genus. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2025 03 03; 17(3).
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M'Angale PG, Lemieux A, Liu Y, Wang S, Zinter M, Alegre G, Simkin A, Budnik V, Kelch BA, Thomson T. Capsid transfer of the retrotransposon Copia controls structural synaptic plasticity in Drosophila. PLoS Biol. 2025 Feb; 23(2):e3002983.
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Brown M, Sciascia E, Ning K, Adam W, Veraksa A. Regulation of Drosophila brain development and organ growth by the Minibrain/Rala signaling network. G3 (Bethesda). 2024 11 06; 14(11).
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Reppert SM. Magnetic field effects on behaviour in Drosophila. Nature. 2024 05; 629(8010):E1-E2.
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Ho S, Theurkauf W, Rice N. piRNA-Guided Transposon Silencing and Response to Stress in Drosophila Germline. Viruses. 2024 04 30; 16(5).
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Portela M, Mukherjee S, Paul S, La Marca JE, Parsons LM, Veraksa A, Richardson HE. The Drosophila tumour suppressor Lgl and Vap33 activate the Hippo pathway through a dual mechanism. J Cell Sci. 2024 02 15; 137(4).