Drosophila used in a sentence

Drosophila in a sentence as a noun

Why can't we test these ideas in mice or drosophila and get a better idea about the effects?

Decades ago, drosophila was chosen because it was cheap to grow in a lab and had a short generation time.

Yet through drosophila we've learned so much about genetics, development, and evolution in ways that are just unparalleled.

If we'd have limited drosophila research decades ago because we didn't think an organism with a ~700 million year split with humans would be useful for us, where would be?

Proper Noun Examples for Drosophila

Drosophila are used for genetic studies with a [shortest] breeding cycle of 7 days and have several ways to introduce mutations that would mimic natural mutagenic mechanisms [but accelerated] as well as being able to apply a lab version of selective pressure [which again would seem to be accelerated].So far as I can tell we've been doing evolution experiments on drosophila since 1910 or earlier; but lets say a conservative 60 years.