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Dopamine drives Drosophila sechellia adaptation to its toxic host

Many insect species are host-obligate specialists. The evolutionary mechanism driving the adaptation of a species to a toxic host is, however, intriguing. We analyzed the tight association of Drosophila sechellia to its sole host, the fruit of Morinda citrifolia, which is toxic to other members of t...

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Autores principales: Lavista-Llanos, Sofía, Svatoš, Aleš, Kai, Marco, Riemensperger, Thomas, Birman, Serge, Stensmyr, Marcus C, Hansson, Bill S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25487989
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03785

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