Article
Genome-wide patterns of adaptation to temperate environments associated with transposable elements in Drosophila.
PLoS genetics - 8 Apr 2010
González Josefa, Karasov Talia L, Messer Philipp W, Petrov Dmitri A
Abstract excerpt
Investigating spatial patterns of loci under selection can give insight into how populations evolved in response to selective pressures and can provide monitoring tools for detecting the impact of environmental changes on populations. Drosophila is a particularly good model to study adaptation to environmental heterogeneity since it is a tropical species that originated in sub-Saharan Africa and has only recently...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Drosophila
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genes, Insect
- Genetics, Population
- Genome, Insect
- Phenotype
- Temperature