Drosophila pseudoobscura
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Drosophila pseudoobscura is a species of fruit fly, used extensively in lab studies of speciation. It is native to western North America.
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Species subgroup: | pseudoobscura subgroup |
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Drosophila pseudoobscura Frolova, 1929 [1]
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In 2005, D. pseudoobscura was the second Drosophila species to have its genome sequenced, after the model organism Drosophila melanogaster.[2]
Allopatric speciation has been induced by reproductive isolation in D. pseudoobscura after only eight generations using different food types, starch and maltose.[3]