An amino acid polymorphism in the couch potato gene forms the basis for climatic adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 42, 2008, Pages 16207-16211

  Schmidt, Paul S ^a   Zhu, Chen Tseh ^b   Das, Jayatri ^a,c   Batavia, Mariska ^a,d   Yang, Li ^a   Eanes, Walter F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Franklin Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cline; Diapause; Life history; Mapping; Tradeoff

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ISOLEUCINE; LYSINE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COUCH POTATO GENE; DIAPAUSE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HABITAT; INCIDENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 55849084694     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805485105     Document Type: Article

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