Drosophila innubila

Drosophila innubila
A Drosophila innubila female on mushroom
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Drosophilidae
Genus: Drosophila
Subgenus: Drosophila
Species:
D. innubila
Binomial name
Drosophila innubila
Spencer in Patterson, 1943

Drosophila innubila is a species of vinegar fly restricted to high-elevation woodlands in the mountains of the southern USA and Mexico,[1] which it likely colonized during the last glacial period.[2] Drosophila innubila is a kind of mushroom-breeding Drosophila, and member of the Drosophila quinaria species group. Drosophila innubila is best known for its association with a strain of male-killing Wolbachia bacteria. These bacteria are parasitic, as they drain resources from the host and cause half the infected female's eggs to abort. However Wolbachia may offer benefits to the fly's fitness in certain circumstances.[3] The D. innubila genome was sequenced in 2019.[4][5]

  1. ^ Dyer KA, Jaenike J (November 2004). "Evolutionarily stable infection by a male-killing endosymbiont in Drosophila innubila: molecular evidence from the host and parasite genomes". Genetics. 168 (3): 1443–55. doi:10.1534/genetics.104.027854. PMC 1448788. PMID 15579697.
  2. ^ Jaenike J, Dyer KA, Reed LK (2003). "Within-population structure of competition and the dynamics of male-killing Wolbachia". Evolutionary Ecology Research. 5 (7): 1023–36.
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  4. ^ Hill T, Koseva BS, Unckless RL (March 2019). "The genome of Drosophila innubila reveals lineage-specific patterns of selection in immune genes". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36 (7): 1405–1417. doi:10.1093/molbev/msz059. PMC 6573480. PMID 30865231.
  5. ^ Unckless RL, Jaenike J (March 2012). "Maintenance of a male-killing Wolbachia in Drosophila innubila by male-killing dependent and male-killing independent mechanisms". Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 66 (3): 678–689. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01485.x. PMID 22380432. S2CID 11559837.