Effects of artificial stabilizing selection on sternopleural bristle phenotypes in drosophila ananassae

Biologisches Zentralblatt

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 307-314

  Mathew, Salomy ^a   Singh, B N ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Drosophila ananassae; Stabilizing selection; Sternopleural bristle number

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA ANANASSAE;

EID: 0030433212     PISSN: 00063304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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