Polymorphism for Y-linked suppressors of sex-ratio in two natural populations of Drosophila mediopunctata

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 891-902

  Carvalho, Antonio Bernardo ^a   Vaz, Suzana Casaccia ^a   Klaczko, Louis Bernard ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; MALE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SUPPRESSOR GENE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEX RATIO; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MEDIOPUNCTATA;

EID: 0030811332     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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