''Drosophila persimilis'' is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
fruit fly that is a sister species to ''
D. pseudoobscura'', and was one of 12 fruitfly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study.
References
External links
''Drosophila persimilis'' at FlyBase''Drosophila persimilis'' at Ensembl Genomes Metazoa*
persimilis
Insects described in 1944
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