Dissecting adaptive clinal variation: Markers, inversions and size/stress associations in drosophila melanogaster from a central field population

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 756-763

  Weeks, Andrew R ^a,c   McKechnie, Stephen W ^a   Hoffmann, Ary A ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Clinal variation; Drosophila melanogaster; Inversions; Size.

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE; FLY; GENETIC MARKER; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036849117     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00380.x     Document Type: Article

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