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Influence of adaptive evolution of cadmium tolerance on neutral and functional genetic variation in Orchesella cincta.
Ecotoxicology (London, England) - 1 Oct 2012
Costa Dalila, Mariën Janine, Janssens Thierry K S, van Gestel Cornelis A M, Driessen Gerard, Sousa José Paulo, van Straalen Nico M, Roelofs Dick
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Adaptation to environmental toxicants, such as metals, can affect population genetic diversity, both at neutral and selectable loci. At the transcriptional level, evolution of metal tolerance is possible due to the existence of polymorphisms in the cis-regulatory sequences of stress-responsive genes such as the metallothionein gene (mt). This study investigated the influence of cadmium adaptation on genetic...
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