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12/04/2024 Person Mauro Santos, Ph.D.

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Departament de Genetica ide Microbiologia, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain,
12/04/2024 Person Ian C. W. Hardy, Ph.D.

Leiden University, Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, The Netherlands
12/04/2024 Person Karel Th. Eisses, Ph.D.

Utrecht University, Department of Plant Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands, E-mail: kteisses@dds.nl
12/04/2024 Publication Frugivorous Drosophila simulans begins to exploit Opuntia ficus-indica cladodes

The introduction of exotic plants creates potential new niches for endemic animals. European tradespeople brought the cactus Opuntia ficus-indica in the 16th century from Mexico to Europe to serve as substrate for the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus), which is used for the production of red dye. Cosmopolitan frugivorous Drosophila...
Dr Andrew Weeks, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons 12/04/2024 Pest Drosophila simulans

This species was discovered by the fly geneticist Alfred Sturtevant in 1919, when he noticed that the flies used in Thomas Hunt Morgan's laboratory at the Columbia University were actually two distinct species: D. melanogaster and D. simulans. Males differ in the external genitalia, while trained observers can separate...
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