GEOGRAPHICAL CONVERGENCE PATTERNS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF DROSOPHILA SPECIES IN NAGALAND, A SUB-HIMALAYAN HILLY STATE OFNORTH-EAST INDIA

摘要

The fruit fly Drosophila is one of the most intensively studied organisms in biology that serves as a model system for investigations of many developmental and cellular processes, disease, adaptation, diversity, and evolution, whose underlying fundamental principles are comparable to higher eukaryotes, including man (Devineni and Ulrike 2013).