"Drosophila melanogaster" 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 species of fruit fly frequently used in genetics because of the large size of its chromosomes.
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D004331
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.310.250.500
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drosophila melanogaster" by people in Profiles.
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Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals. Nat Genet. 2019 11; 51(11):1624-1636.
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cindr, the Drosophila Homolog of the CD2AP Alzheimer's Disease Risk Gene, Is Required for Synaptic Transmission and Proteostasis. Cell Rep. 2019 08 13; 28(7):1799-1813.e5.
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Tau Activates Transposable Elements in Alzheimer's Disease. Cell Rep. 2018 06 05; 23(10):2874-2880.
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An ultra-fast and scalable quantification pipeline for transposable elements from next generation sequencing data. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2018; 23:168-179.
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Drosophila and genome-wide association studies: a review and resource for the functional dissection of human complex traits. Dis Model Mech. 2017 02 01; 10(2):77-88.
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Discovery and functional prioritization of Parkinson's disease candidate genes from large-scale whole exome sequencing. Genome Biol. 2017 01 30; 18(1):22.
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Rare Functional Variant in TM2D3 is Associated with Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease. PLoS Genet. 2016 Oct; 12(10):e1006327.
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Functional screening in Drosophila identifies Alzheimer's disease susceptibility genes and implicates Tau-mediated mechanisms. Hum Mol Genet. 2014 Feb 15; 23(4):870-7.
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Tauopathy in Drosophila: neurodegeneration without neurofibrillary tangles. Science. 2001 Jul 27; 293(5530):711-4.