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Henry Chung1, David W Loehlin, Héloïse D Dufour

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 15, 2014
PubMed
まとめ

メチル分岐型皮状炭化水素 (mbCHCs) は,ドロソフィラの干ばつ耐性と配偶者選択の両方に影響を及ぼします. 生態学的要因によって引き起こされるmbCHCの生産の変化は,種間の生殖的孤立に寄与する可能性が高い.

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