"Drosophila melanogaster" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A species of fruit fly frequently used in genetics because of the large size of its chromosomes.
| Descriptor ID |
D004331
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.310.250.500
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drosophila melanogaster" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drosophila melanogaster" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 1997 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 1998 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2001 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2002 | 12 | 2 | 14 |
| 2003 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2004 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2005 | 11 | 6 | 17 |
| 2006 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2007 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2008 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 2009 | 11 | 4 | 15 |
| 2010 | 11 | 2 | 13 |
| 2011 | 12 | 3 | 15 |
| 2012 | 18 | 4 | 22 |
| 2013 | 17 | 9 | 26 |
| 2014 | 18 | 10 | 28 |
| 2015 | 20 | 9 | 29 |
| 2016 | 19 | 13 | 32 |
| 2017 | 6 | 9 | 15 |
| 2018 | 14 | 14 | 28 |
| 2019 | 5 | 16 | 21 |
| 2020 | 9 | 14 | 23 |
| 2021 | 3 | 16 | 19 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
| 2023 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2025 | 3 | 12 | 15 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drosophila melanogaster" by people in Profiles.
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Heterozygous variants in PLCG1 affect hearing, vision, cardiac, and immune function. Elife. 2025 Aug 27; 13.
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Sleep drive, not total sleep amount, increases seizure risk. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 29; 16(1):6967.
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Rare variants in BMAL1 are associated with a neurodevelopmental syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Aug 05; 122(31):e2427085122.
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Distinguishing PEX2 and PEX16 gene variant severity for mild, severe and atypical peroxisome biogenesis disorders. Dis Model Mech. 2025 Jul 01; 18(7).
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Functional assays in Drosophila facilitate classification of variants of uncertain significance associated with rare diseases. Genome Res. 2025 Jul 01; 35(7):1473-1484.
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Emergence of cellular nematic order is a conserved feature of gastrulation in animal embryos. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 01; 16(1):5946.
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Drosophila models uncover substrate channeling effects on phospholipids and sphingolipids in peroxisomal biogenesis disorders. PLoS One. 2025; 20(6):e0324143.
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Functional analysis of pathogenic variants in LAMB1-related leukoencephalopathy reveals genotype-phenotype correlations and suggests its role in glial cells. Hum Mol Genet. 2025 May 17; 34(11):990-999.
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C-terminal frameshift variants in GPKOW are associated with a multisystemic X-linked disorder. Genet Med. 2025 Jul; 27(7):101429.
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Computational and functional prioritization identifies genes that rescue behavior and reduce tau protein in fly and human cell models of Alzheimer disease. Am J Hum Genet. 2025 May 01; 112(5):1081-1096.