| Title |
Evidence that natural selection maintains genetic variation for sleep in Drosophila melanogaster
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12862-015-0316-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nicolas Svetec, Li Zhao, Perot Saelao, Joanna C Chiu, David J Begun |
| Abstract |
Drosophila melanogaster often shows correlations between latitude and phenotypic or genetic variation on different continents, which suggests local adaptation with respect to a heterogeneous environment. Previous phenotypic analyses of latitudinal clines have investigated mainly physiological, morphological, or life-history traits. Here, we studied latitudinal variation in sleep in D. melanogaster populations from North and Central America. In parallel, we used RNA-seq to identify interpopulation gene expression differences. |
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| United States | 6 | 50% |
| Australia | 1 | 8% |
| Hungary | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 4 | 33% |
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| Members of the public | 6 | 50% |
| Scientists | 4 | 33% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 8% |
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| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 64 | 91% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 20% |
| Researcher | 12 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 10% |
| Professor | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 13 | 19% |
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| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 17% |
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| Computer Science | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
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