Evidence that Egfr Contributes to Cryptic Genetic Variation for Photoreceptor Determination in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 1888-1893

  Dworkin, Ian ^a   Palsson, Arnar ^a,b   Birdsall, Kelli ^a   Gibson, Greg ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0242349695     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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