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Selection and gene flow on a diminishing cline of melanic peppered moths.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Oct 2008
Saccheri Ilik J, Rousset François, Watts Phillip C, Brakefield Paul M, Cook Laurence M
Abstract excerpt
Historical datasets documenting changes to gene frequency clines are extremely rare but provide a powerful means of assessing the strength and relative roles of natural selection and gene flow. In 19th century Britain, blackening of the environment by the coal-fired manufacturing industry gave rise to a steep cline in the frequency of the black (carbonaria) morph of the peppered moth (Biston betularia) across...
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