Natural selection favors a newly derived timeless allele in Drosophila melanogaster

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5833, 2007, Pages 1895-1898

  Tauber, Eran ^a   Zordan, Mauro ^b   Sandrelli, Federica ^b   Pegoraro, Mirko ^a,b   Osterwalder, Nicolò ^b   Breda, Carlo ^a,b   Daga, Andrea ^b   Selmin, Alessandro ^a,b   Monger, Karen ^a   Benna, Clara ^b   Rosato, Ezio ^a   Kyriacou, Charalambos P ^a   Costa, Rodolfo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAPAUSE; EVOLUTION; FLY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIGHT EFFECT; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAPAUSE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; LIGHT; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; TIMELESS GENE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TEMPERATURE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 34347393197     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138412     Document Type: Article

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25. Supported by the European Community (EC Biotechnology program ERB-B104-CT960096 and 6th Framework Project EUCLOCK 018741), Ministero dell' Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (MURST)/British Council (C.P.K. and R.C.); NERC (C.P.K., E.T., and E.R.); a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (C.P.K.); a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship (E.T.); Ministero dell' Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) and Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI, DCMC grant) (R.C.); Università di Padova grant 116 g03 (F.S.) and Assegno di Ricerca CPDR042471 (C.B.); and a Socrates studentship (A.S.). We thank our colleagues throughout Europe who provided many of the natural populations. EMBL sequence accession numbers are AM501534-AM501545, AM502183-AM502218, AM502183-AM502218, AJ748796-AJ748819, and AM503548-AM503569.