"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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| 1995 | 38 | 16 | 54 |
| 1996 | 32 | 28 | 60 |
| 1997 | 33 | 26 | 59 |
| 1998 | 26 | 30 | 56 |
| 1999 | 28 | 20 | 48 |
| 2000 | 37 | 23 | 60 |
| 2001 | 30 | 31 | 61 |
| 2002 | 32 | 21 | 53 |
| 2003 | 33 | 37 | 70 |
| 2004 | 28 | 40 | 68 |
| 2005 | 40 | 39 | 79 |
| 2006 | 40 | 27 | 67 |
| 2007 | 53 | 29 | 82 |
| 2008 | 39 | 25 | 64 |
| 2009 | 38 | 17 | 55 |
| 2010 | 21 | 37 | 58 |
| 2011 | 36 | 31 | 67 |
| 2012 | 23 | 28 | 51 |
| 2013 | 22 | 28 | 50 |
| 2014 | 20 | 33 | 53 |
| 2015 | 18 | 35 | 53 |
| 2016 | 20 | 24 | 44 |
| 2017 | 20 | 23 | 43 |
| 2018 | 17 | 24 | 41 |
| 2019 | 18 | 20 | 38 |
| 2020 | 13 | 24 | 37 |
| 2021 | 12 | 23 | 35 |
| 2022 | 10 | 29 | 39 |
| 2023 | 13 | 25 | 38 |
| 2024 | 13 | 19 | 32 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Drosophila" by people in Profiles.
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Glycogen synthase is required for heat shock-mediated autophagy induction in neuronal cells. Biol Open. 2025 Feb 15; 14(2).
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Cryo-EM structures reveal the H+/citrate symport mechanism of Drosophila INDY. Life Sci Alliance. 2025 Apr; 8(4).
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Conserved roles of engrailed: patterning tissues and specifying cell types. Development. 2024 Dec 15; 151(24).
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Biallelic variants in GTF3C3 result in an autosomal recessive disorder with intellectual disability. Genet Med. 2025 Jan; 27(1):101253.
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Extramacrochaetae regulates Notch signaling in the Drosophila eye through non-apoptotic caspase activity. Elife. 2024 Nov 20; 12.
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Dynamic readout of the Hh gradient in the Drosophila wing disc reveals pattern-specific tradeoffs between robustness and precision. Elife. 2024 Nov 07; 13.
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Accumulation of F-actin drives brain aging and limits healthspan in Drosophila. Nat Commun. 2024 Oct 25; 15(1):9238.
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Dendrite injury triggers neuroprotection in Drosophila models of neurodegenerative disease. Sci Rep. 2024 10 21; 14(1):24766.
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Divergent visual ecology of Drosophila species drives object-tracking strategies matched to landscape sparsity. Curr Biol. 2024 Oct 21; 34(20):4743-4755.e3.
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The primacy model and the structure of olfactory space. PLoS Comput Biol. 2024 Sep; 20(9):e1012379.