Latest papers

FlyBase: genomes by the dozen.

Evolutionary conservation of lampbrush-like loops in drosophilids.

Taxonomic survey of Drosophilidae (Diptera) from mangrove forests of Santa Catarina Island, Southern Brazil.

Changes in Brazilian Drosophilidae (Diptera) assemblages across an urbanisation gradient.

Study of the Drosophilidae (Diptera) communities on Atlantic Forest islands of Santa Catarina State, Brazil.

The zoophilic fruitfly Phortica variegata: morphology, ecology and biological niche.

Phortica variegata as an intermediate host of Thelazia callipaeda under natural conditions: evidence for pathogen transmission by a male arthropod vector.

Molecular phylogeny of the Drosophila virilis section (Diptera: Drosophilidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear sequences.

Microsatellites reveal male recombination and neo-sex chromosome formation in Scaptodrosophila hibisci (Drosophilidae).

A spatially explicit approach to estimating species occupancy and spatial correlation.

FlyBase: anatomical data, images and queries.

Functional constraint underlies 60 million year stasis of Dipteran testis-specific beta-tubulin.

Characterization of esterases in a Brazilian population of Zaprionus indianus (Diptera: Drosophilidae).

Sexual dimorphism of body size and sternopleural bristle number: a comparison of geographic populations of an invasive cosmopolitan drosophilid.

Nematode biology and larval development of Thelazia callipaeda (Spirurida, Thelaziidae) in the drosophilid intermediate host in Europe and China.

A new species group in the genus Dichaetophora Duda (Diptera: Drosophilidae) based on a phylogenetic analysis, with descriptions of four new species from China.

Variability of wing size and shape in three populations of a recent Brazilian invader, Zaprionus indianus (Diptera: Drosophilidae), from different habitats.

Is genome size influenced by colonization of new environments in dipteran species?

Differences in sensory projections between macro- and microchaetes in Drosophilid flies.

Population structure and host-plant specialization in two Scaptodrosophila flower-breeding species.