Quantitative genetics of functional characters in Drosophila melanogaster populations subjected to laboratory selection

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-277

  Teotónio, Henrique ^a,b   Matos, Margarida ^c   Rose, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Dominance; Drosophila; Epistasis; Experimental evolution; Life history evolution; Line cross analysis; Quantitative genetics; Reverse evolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYBRID; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LABORATORY; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OUTBREEDING; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STARVATION; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 13844266032     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02717896     Document Type: Article

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