La evolución. Las moscas de la fruta diversifican su descendencia en respuesta a una infección parasitaria

Nadia D Singh1, Dallas R Criscoe2, Shelly Skolfield3

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences and Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. ndsingh@ncsu.edu schlenkt@reed.edu.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 15, 2015
PubMed
Resumen

Las moscas de la fruta aumentan la descendencia recombinante después de la infección, una estrategia clave en la dinámica de la Reina Roja huésped-parásito. Esta adaptación del huésped es impulsada por la distorsión de la transmisión, no por el aumento de las tasas de recombinación.

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