Pigmentation and mate choice in Drosophila.

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Pigmentation and mate choice in Drosophila.

Nature - 26 Sept 2002

Llopart Anna, Elwyn Susannah, Coyne Jerry A

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Many species of the fruitfly Drosophila are either sexually dimorphic for abdominal pigmentation (the posterior segments in males are black and those of females have thin dark stripes) or sexually monomorphic for this pigmentation (both sexes show striping). Kopp et al. report a correlation in two Drosophila clades between the expression of the bric-à-brac (bab) gene, which represses male-specific pigmentation in...

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Abdomen
Animals
Biological Evolution
Color
DNA-Binding Proteins
Drosophila Proteins
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genes, Insect
Male
Mutation
Pigmentation
Sex Characteristics
Sexual Behavior, Animal
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PMID: 12353025
DOI: 10.1038/419360a

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