Correlated responses to selection on body size in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetical Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-54

  Partridge, Linda ^a   Langelan, Rosalie ^b   Fowler, Kevin ^a   Zwaan, Bas ^a,c   French, Vernon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; THORAX;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; LARVA; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032832434     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672399003778     Document Type: Article

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