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Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on developmental time and wing length in Drosophila buzzatii.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2002
Cortese Marcelo D, Norry Fabian M, Piccinali Romina, Hasson Esteban
Abstract excerpt
Developmental time and body size are two positively correlated traits closely related to fitness in many organisms including Drosophila. Previous work suggested that these two traits are involved in a trade-off that may result from a negative genetic correlation between their effects on pre-adult and adult fitness. Here, we examine the evolution of developmental time and body size (indexed by wing length) under...
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