Drosophila yakuba | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Drosophilidae |
Genus: | Drosophila |
Subgenus: | Sophophora |
Species group: | melanogaster |
Species subgroup: | melanogaster |
Species complex: | yakuba |
Species: | D. yakuba
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Binomial name | |
Drosophila yakuba Burla, 1954
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Drosophila yakuba is an African species of fruit fly that is predominantly found in open savanna, and was one of 12 fruit fly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study.[1]