Drosophila melanogaster's history as a human commensal
Drosophila melanogaster's history as a human commensal
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cub.2006.12.031
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发表时间：
2007-02-06
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影响因子：
9.2
通讯作者：
Keller, Andreas
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作者：
Keller, Andreas
当W.E.哈佛城堡和 T.H.哥伦比亚大学的摩根开始使用一只小苍蝇进行遗传学实验室实验，他们可能不知道该物种几年前才被引入美国。黑腹果蝇现在是生物学研究中广泛流行的生物体，它是一种人类共生生物，其目前的世界性分布很大程度上归功于人类活动。自从这一点变得清晰以来，在了解果蝇的历史生物地理学及其与人类活动的关系方面已经取得了相当大的进展。甚至首次尝试描述与人类活动无关的种群生态，这可能有助于揭示该物种的进化历史。
When W.E. Castle at Harvard and T.H. Morgan at the Columbia University started using a tiny fly for laboratory experiments in genetics they were probably unaware that the species had only been introduced to the United States a few years earlier. Drosophila melanogaster, now a widely popular organism in biological research, is a human commensal that owes its current cosmopolitan distribution largely to human activity. Since this became clear considerable progress has been made in understanding the historical biogeography of Drosophila melanogaster and its association with human activities. There are even first attempts to describe the ecology of populations not associated with human activities, which might shed light on the evolutionary history of the species.