Variation and evolution of male sex combs in Drosophila: Nature of selection response and theories of genetic variation for sexual traits

Genetics

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 503-509

  Ahuja, Abha ^a   Singh, Rama S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMB; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; SENSORY RECEPTOR;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; MALE; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 52049105427     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.086363     Document Type: Article

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