Genetics of larval urea tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster

Heredity

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-39

  Joshi, Amitabh ^a   Knight, Christopher D ^a   Mueller, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Density dependent selection; Drosophila melanogaster; Larval crowding; Stress resistance; Urea tolerance; X linkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 3643115781     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1996.105     Document Type: Article

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