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The genetic architecture of a complex ecological trait: host plant use in the specialist moth, Heliothis subflexa.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2012
Oppenheim Sara J, Gould Fred, Hopper Keith R
Abstract excerpt
We used genetic mapping to examine the genetic architecture of differences in host plant use between two species of noctuid moths, Heliothis subflexa, a specialist on Physalis spp., and its close relative, the broad generalist H. virescens. We introgressed H. subflexa chromosomes into the H. virescens background and analyzed 1462 backcross insects. The effects of H. subflexa-origin chromosomes were small when...
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