An Ancestral Balanced Inversion Polymorphism Confers Global Adaptation.

Abstract excerpt

Since the pioneering work of Dobzhansky in the 1930s and 1940s, many chromosomal inversions have been identified, but how they contribute to adaptation remains poorly understood. In Drosophila melanogaster, the widespread inversion polymorphism In(3R)Payne underpins latitudinal clines in fitness traits on multiple continents. Here, we use single-individual whole-genome sequencing, transcriptomics, and published...

Topics

• Animals
• Drosophila melanogaster
• Chromosome Inversion
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• North America