Selective sweep in the Flotillin-2 region of European Drosophila melanogaster.

Localizing genes that are subject to recent positive selection is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In the model organism Drosophila melanogaster many attempts have been made in recent years to identify such genes by conducting so-called genome scans of selection. These analyses consisted in typ...

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Main Authors: Annegret Werzner, Pavlos Pavlidis, Lino Ometto, Wolfgang Stephan, Stefan Laurent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3578937?pdf=render