''Drosophila ananassae'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of fruit fly that is a useful model organism for genetic studies because it is easily cultured in the laboratory, and was one of 12 fruitfly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study. Drosophila_ananassae_female

References

External links

''Drosophila ananassae'' at FlyBase

''Drosophila ananassae'' at Ensembl Genomes Metazoa
* A {{Drosophilidae-stub