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#FruitFlyFebruary Day 1: Here’s a D. mel 3rd instar brain! (instar = immature devo stage b/w molts) The white region = ring gland which acts like an insect hormone factory — it produces the 3 major insect hormones: ecdysone, juvenile hormone, and prothoracicotropic hormone pic.twitter.com/mYEc6An4He
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#FruitFlyFebruary Day
: D. melanogaster have 4 pairs of chromosomes which make them super attractive organisms for genetic studies. One pair of sex chrom. and 3 pairs of autosomes. The 4th chrom. AKA the dot chrom. make up only ~2% of their genome!
http://bit.ly/ffchromosomes pic.twitter.com/q6c4e84Is8
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#FruitFlyFebruary Day 3: Late 3rd instar larva w. GFP expression in its salivary glands (SG)! Drosophila have glue proteins in the SG that are secreted in their prepupal stage to help the larvae firmly glue themselves to a surface during pupariation. More: http://bit.ly/sgs3gfp pic.twitter.com/gPluNokkIY
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Challenging myself to tweet more! I’ll be sharing a fun fact about
#Drosophila, commonly known as fruit flies, every day in February. Let’s start#FruitFlyFebruary !#scicomm#entomology#edutwitter -
#FruitFlyFebruary Day
: Drosophila melanogaster is currently classified under the subgenus Sophophora, not Drosophila. Drosophila as a genus contains ~9 subgenera, one of which I find confusingly named Dorsilopha
more info here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5937177/ … -
Hopefully, My
#FruitFlyFebruary journey is going to begin from Tomorrow right after the@SuperBowl LIV -
Stay tuned for our
@hannahhchu’s#FruitFlyFebruary ! She will tweet about fruit fly fun facts every day this month: https://twitter.com/hannahhchu/status/1223692760131104768 …
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