QTL mapping reveals a striking coincidence in the positions of genomic regions associated with adaptive variation in body size in parallel clines of Drosophila melanogaster on different continents

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2653-2658

  Calboli, Federico C F ^a,b   Kennington, W Jason ^a   Partridge, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Evoluzionistica Sperimentale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body size; Chromosome inversion; Genetic differentiation; Latitudinal cline; Natural selection; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; ECTOTHERMY; NATURAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0345094915     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb01509.x     Document Type: Article

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