At the same time this post is scheduled to go up on ScienceBlogs I should be a few thousand feet above Middle America. I'll be spending the rest of this week in Tucson, Arizona (which I like to pronounce "Tuck-Sun", like how we pronounce Phoenix "Pa-Ho-Nix") learning about Drosophila. Sure, I already know a bit about these pomace flies, but after this weekend I'll have mad Drosophila skills. They should provide an excellent complement to my chicken-head-eating skills.
This is my way of saying posting will be light -- kinda like the weight I push -- over the next few days.
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Paraphyly in Drosophila
The Drosophila genus is paraphyletic. That means there are species nested within the phylogeny of the genus that belong to other genera.
Endangered Ugly Things has a post on the eleven Drosophila species listed as endangered and the one listed as threatened in 2006. These flies are known as picture winged for the patterns found on their wings.