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Polymorphism in the couch potato gene clines in eastern Australia but is not associated with ovarian dormancy in Drosophila melanogaster.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2011
Lee Siu F, Sgrò Carla M, Shirriffs Jennifer, Wee Choon W, Rako Lea, van Heerwaarden Belinda, Hoffmann Ary A
Abstract excerpt
Natural selection can generate parallel latitudinal clines in traits and gene frequencies across continents, but these have rarely been linked. An amino acid (isoleucine to lysine, or I462K) polymorphism of the couch potato (cpo) gene in Drosophila melanogaster is thought to control female reproductive diapause cline in North America (Schmidt et al. 2008, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 105, 16207-16211). Here, we show...
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