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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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PMID: 12353025
DOI: 10.1038/419360a

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