Pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster reaches its maximum in Ethiopia and correlates most strongly with ultra-violet radiation in sub-Saharan Africa

BACKGROUND: Pigmentation has a long history of investigation in evolutionary biology. In Drosophila melanogaster, latitudinal and altitudinal clines have been found but their underlying causes remain unclear. Moreover, most studies were conducted on cosmopolitan populations which have a relatively l...

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Autores principales: Bastide, Héloïse, Yassin, Amir, Johanning, Evan J, Pool, John E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25115161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0179-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25115161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0179-y

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