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The peppered moth and industrial melanism: evolution of a natural selection case study.

Heredity - 1 Mar 2013

Cook L M, Saccheri I J

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From the outset multiple causes have been suggested for changes in melanic gene frequency in the peppered moth Biston betularia and other industrial melanic moths. These have included higher intrinsic fitness of melanic forms and selective predation for camouflage. The possible existence and origin of heterozygote advantage has been debated. From the 1950s, as a result of experimental evidence, selective...

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PMID: 23211788
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2012.92
PMCID: PMC3668657

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