Sexual conflict and gene expression: Exploring sex-specific associations between fitness and transcriptional variation

Fly

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-4

  Innocenti, Paolo ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fitness variation; Gene expression; Genomics; Genotype phenotype map; Intralocus sexual conflict; Microarray; Sexual antagonism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551559148     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.5.1.14459     Document Type: Article

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