The molecular genetics of clinal variation: A case study of ebony and thoracic trident pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster from eastern Australia

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2100-2110

  Telonis Scott, Marina ^a   Hoffmann, Ary A ^a   Sgrò, Carla M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

clinal variation; Drosophila pigmentation; gene expression

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EBONY PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 79955581901     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05089.x     Document Type: Article

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