Laboratory selection experiments using Drosophila: What do they really tell us?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 32-36

  Harshman, Lawrence G ^a   Hoffmann, Ary A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; LABORATORY METHOD; NATURAL SELECTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; LABORATORY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034107592     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01756-5     Document Type: Note

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