Geographical divergence for quantitative traits in colonising populations of Drosophila kikkawai from India

Hereditas

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 201-205

  Parkash, Ravi ^a,b   Karan, Dev ^a   Munjal, Ashok K ^a  

^a MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLIMATE; DROSOPHILA; FORELIMB; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIA; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NATURAL POPULATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VARIANCE;

DROSOPHILA KIKKAWAI;

EID: 0031666942     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1998.00201.x     Document Type: Article

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