Selection and gene flow on a diminishing cline of melanic peppered moths

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

Volumn 105, Issue 42, 2008, Pages 16212-16217

  Saccheri, Ilik J ^a   Rousset, François ^b   Watts, Phillip C ^a   Brakefield, Paul M ^c,d   Cook, Laurence M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biston betularia; Cline change; Industrial melanism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EROSION; FEMALE; FITNESS; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; LARVA; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; WIND;

ANIMALS; COAL; ENGLAND; GENE FLOW; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MELANINS; MOTHS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS;

BISTON BETULARIA;

EID: 55849101536     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803785105     Document Type: Article

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