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Quantifying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System

It is estimated that a large proportion of amino acid substitutions in Drosophila have been fixed by natural selection, and as organisms are faced with an ever-changing array of pathogens and parasites to which they must adapt, we have investigated the role of parasite-mediated selection as a likely...

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Autores principales: Obbard, Darren J., Welch, John J., Kim, Kang-Wook, Jiggins, Francis M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19851448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000698