Responses to selection on phenoloxidase activity in yellow dung flies

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1612-1621

  Schwarzenbach, Gioia A ^a   Ward, Paul I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost of immunity; Diptera; Encapsulation; Experimental evolution; Infection; Parasites; Scatophaga

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE BEHAVIOR; NATURAL SELECTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DIPTERA; INSECTA; SCATHOPHAGA; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA;

CATECHOL OXIDASE; ENZYME PRECURSOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PRO PHENOLOXIDASE; PRO-PHENOLOXIDASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FLY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; CATECHOL OXIDASE; DIPTERA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PRECURSORS; LONGEVITY; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO;

EID: 33750593708     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/06-090.1     Document Type: Article

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