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Diptera

Known as: True Flies, Fly, True Fly 
An order of the class Insecta. Wings, when present, number two and distinguish Diptera from other so-called flies, while the halteres, or reduced… 
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CalliphoridaeChironomidaeCulicidaeDrosophilidae

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Insecta
LarvaMaggots (invertebrate)MicrobiologicalMyiasis

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot
Lord of the Robotic Flies While small-scale flying objects are ubiquitous in nature, they are quite hard to engineer. As sizes… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Imaging neural activity in worms, flies and mice with improved GCaMP calcium indicators
Genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) can be used to image activity in defined neuronal populations. However, current… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
The c-Myc target gene network.
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
The adult Drosophila posterior midgut is maintained by pluripotent stem cells
Vertebrate and invertebrate digestive systems show extensive similarities in their development, cellular makeup and genetic… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Collagens, modifying enzymes and their mutations in humans, flies and worms.
Review
1998
Review
1998
Increasing complexity of Ras signaling
The initial discovery that ras genes endowed retroviruses with potent carcinogenic properties and the subsequent determination… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Extension of life-span by overexpression of superoxide dismutase and catalase in Drosophila melanogaster.
The hypothesis that oxygen free radicals are causally involved in the aging process was tested by a study of the effects of… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Forensic entomology in criminal investigations.
Forensic entomology is the application of the study of insects and other arthropods to legal issues, especially in a court of law… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
The aging process.
Aging is the progressive accumulation of changes with time that are associated with or responsible for the ever-increasing… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Transposition of cloned P elements into Drosophila germ line chromosomes.
Recombinant DNA carrying the 3-kilobase transposable element was injected into Drosophila embryos of a strain that lacked such… 
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