DROSOPHILA (drosophilae)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: drosophilae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does drosophila mean? 

• DROSOPHILA (noun)
  The noun DROSOPHILA has 1 sense:

1. small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance

  Familiarity information: DROSOPHILA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROSOPHILA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

drosophila; Drosophila melanogaster

Hypernyms ("drosophila" is a kind of...):

fruit fly; pomace fly (any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits)

Holonyms ("drosophila" is a member of...):

genus Drosophila (a genus of Drosophilidae)

 Context examples 

Drosophila CNK interacts with RAF and localizes to cell junctions, required by several pathways stimulated by receptor tyrosine kinases.

(Connector Enhancer of KSR-Like Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Drosophila Patched Gene (Patched Family) encodes Patched protein, an integral membrane protein containing an SSD domain that acts as a segmentation polarity pattern receptor for hedgehog during embryonic segmentation and during imaginal disk development.

(Drosophila Patched Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Drosophila cells, which do not express any native MHC molecules, have been shown to potently stimulate tumor-reactivity in vitro from human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) when stably transfected with human MHC molecules and appropriate adhesion and costimulatory molecules.

(Autologous CD8 Positive PBL Sensitized to Drosophila Cell-Presented Melanoma Peptides, NCI Thesaurus)

Drosophila CNK is a necessary element in receptor tyrosine kinase pathways, possibly as a tyrosine phosphorylation target.

(Connector Enhancer of KSR-Like Protein, NCI Thesaurus)