Strange little flies in the big city: Exotic flower-breeding Drosophilidae (Diptera) in urban Los Angeles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Grimaldi, David ^a   Ginsberg, Paul S ^b   Thayer, Lesley ^a   McEvey, Shane ^c   Hauser, Martin ^d   Turelli, Michael ^b   Brown, Brian ^e  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING; CESTRUM; CESTRUM AURANTIACUM; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA FLAVOHIRTA; DROSOPHILA FLAVOPILOSA; DROSOPHILA GENTICA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCALYPTUS; EXOTIC SPECIES; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SESSEA; SOLANACEAE; SYZYGIUM; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DIPTERA; FLOWER; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CESTRUM; CESTRUM AURANTIACUM; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA FLAVOHIRTA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; EUCALYPTUS; HEXAPODA; MYRTACEAE; SESSEA; SOLANACEAE; SYZYGIUM;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FLOWERS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 84928738618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122575     Document Type: Article

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