Eggs, enzymes, and evolution: natural genetic variants change insect fecundity.

doi:10.1073/pnas.89.22.10608

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Eggs, enzymes, and evolution: natural genetic variants change insect fecundity.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Nov 1992

Watt W B

Abstract excerpt

Phosphoglucose isomerase genotypes in the butterfly Colias differ dramatically in biochemical properties. These differences were evaluated earlier, using metabolic network theory, to predict, successfully, their effects on glycolytic metabolism and hence on Colias flight capacity and several cons...

Topics

Analysis of Variance
Animals
Biological Evolution
Butterflies
Female
Fertility
Flight, Animal
Genetic Variation
Genotype
Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase
Insecta
Male
Models, Genetic
Oviposition
Ovum
Software

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