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rambaut@castle.ed.ac.uk (A E Ram aut) writes:

>Please could someone tell me the family of flies that contains the
>genus Drosophila.  This organism is so ubiquitous (in the literature)
>that noone ever seems to give its taxonomy. This is very urgent and I
>have no access to the library for the moment.

>Thanks alot.
>Andrew

>p.s. probably a good idea to email me as I am sure noone else would be
>in the slightest bit interested.

The taxonomy used by GenBank (the US DNA sequence repository) is:

Eukaryotae/Animalia/Metazoa/Arthropoda/Uniramia/Insecta/Pterygota/Neoptera
/Holometabola/Diptera/Brachycera/Cyclorrhapha/Drosophila

There's obviously some additions to Linnaeus' scheme here, but I
believe you can sort it out.

The taxonomies used by GenBank and some other sequence databases are
available via the gopher hole at  merlot.welch.jhu.edu (look under
the "Databases at Welchlab" menu.  These taxonomies should not be used
to resolve disputes amongst friends (i.e. they are valued most for
lending consistency to the databases, not necessarily reflecting the
latest literature), but are useful in a pinch.  There are probably
better taxonomies somewhere else on the net -- but you got me there.


Keith Robison
Harvard University
Department of Cellular & Developmental Biology
Department of Genetics / HHMI

robison@biosun.harvard.edu