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Also Known As small fruit fly • pomace fly • Drosophila

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Close-up of a common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, showing its red eyes, brown body, and transparent wings, standing on a textured white surface.
Benzer, Seymour
Diagram illustrating sex-linked inheritance of white and red eye color in Drosophila fruit flies, showing genetic crosses between white-eyed and red-eyed males and females, with chromosomes and resulting eye color traits mapped through two generations.
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist
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Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala
American geneticist and biologist
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Michael W. Young
American geneticist
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Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
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Guido Pontecorvo
Italian geneticist

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