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DDT resistance, epistasis and male fitness in flies.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Jun 2011
Smith D T, Hosken D J, Rostant W G, Yeo M, Griffin R M, Bretman A, Price T A R, Ffrench-Constant R H, Wedell N
Abstract excerpt
In Drosophila melanogaster, the DDT resistance allele (DDT-R) is beneficial in the presence of DDT. Interestingly, DDT-R also elevates female fitness in the absence of DDT and existed in populations before DDT use. However, DDT-R did not spread regardless of DDT-independent selective advantages in females. We ask whether sexual antagonism could explain why DDT-R did not spread before pesticide use. We tested pre-...
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