I Give You Sophophora Melanogaster

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I Give You Sophophora Melanogaster

Jan 31, 2008

Recent studies have shown that Drosophila melanogaster is, well, not part of the Drosophila genus, blogs Larry Moran. Since taxonomists are cladists, Moran says this will lead to a renaming of the model organism to Sophophora melanogaster.

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