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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… (More)

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1936-2017
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22 relations

Narrower (14)

CalliphoridaeChironomidaeCulicidaeDrosophilidae
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Broader (1)

Insecta
LarvaMaggots (invertebrate)MicrobiologicalMyiasis
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1936-2018
19401960198020002020
Diptera
physiological aspects
Culicidae
Insecta
Larva
Microbiological

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Unlocking the secrets of the genome.
Despite the successes of genomics, little is known about how genetic information produces complex organisms. A look at the… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
An internal thermal sensor controlling temperature preference in Drosophila.
Animals from flies to humans are able to distinguish subtle gradations in temperature and show strong temperature preferences… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Lifespan and reproduction in Drosophila: New insights from nutritional geometry.
Modest dietary restriction (DR) prolongs life in a wide range of organisms, spanning single-celled yeast to mammals. Here, we… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
DNA barcoding and taxonomy in Diptera: a tale of high intraspecific variability and low identification success.
DNA barcoding and DNA taxonomy have recently been proposed as solutions to the crisis of taxonomy and received significant… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
An update on the potential of north American mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) to transmit West Nile Virus.
ABSTRACT Since first discovered in the New York City area in 1999, West Nile virus (WNV) has become established over much of the… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Evolution of resistance toward Bacillus sphaericus or a mixture of B. sphaericus+Cyt1A from Bacillus thuringiensis, in the mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae).
The 2362 strain of Bacillus sphaericus (Bs) Neide is a highly mosquitocidal bacterium used in commercial bacterial larvicides… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
A cocktail polymerase chain reaction assay to identify members of the Anopheles funestus (Diptera: Culicidae) group.
Anopheles funestus Giles is a major malaria vector in Africa belonging to a group of species with morphologically similar… (More)
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
The FLP recombinase of yeast catalyzes site-specific recombination in the Drosophila genome.
We have transferred the site-specific recombination system of the yeast 2 micron plasmid, the FLP recombinase and its… (More)
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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Classical conditioning and retention in normal and mutantDrosophila melanogaster
By changing the conditioned discrimination paradigm of Quinn et al. (1974) from an instrumental procedure to a classical… (More)
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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Molecular evolution in Drosophila and the higher Diptera II. A time scale for fly evolution.
In this paper, we examine first the steadiness of the rate of evolutionary change in a larval hemolymph protein, LHP, in numerous… (More)
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