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Drosophila americana as a model species for comparative studies on the molecular basis of phenotypic variation.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2013
Fonseca Nuno A, Morales-Hojas Ramiro, Reis Micael, Rocha Helder, Vieira Cristina P, Nolte Viola, Schlötterer Christian, Vieira Jorge
Abstract excerpt
Understanding the molecular basis of within and between species phenotypic variation is one of the main goals of Biology. In Drosophila, most of the work regarding this issue has been performed in D. melanogaster, but other distantly related species must also be studied to verify the generality of the findings obtained for this species. Here, we make the case for D. americana, a species of the virilis group of...
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