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A worldwide polymorphism in aldehyde dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster: evidence for selection mediated by dietary ethanol.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2008

Fry James D, Donlon Kathy, Saweikis Molly

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Clinally varying traits in Drosophila melanogaster provide good opportunities for elucidating the genetic basis of adaptation. Resistance to ethanol, a natural component of D. melanogaster's breeding sites, increases with latitude on multiple continents, indicating that the trait is under selection. Although the well-studied Alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) polymorphism makes a contribution to the clines, it accounts...

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PMID: 18070084
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00288.x

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