Genetic mechanisms and constraints governing the evolution of correlated traits in drosophilid files

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6951, 2003, Pages 931-935

  Gompel, Nicolas ^a   Carroll, Sean B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PIGMENTS;

FRUITFLIES;

BIODIVERSITY;

BAB2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PIGMENT;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; CUTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLY; GENETIC TRAIT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILINAE; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0041858033     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01787     Document Type: Article

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