Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular evolution and the decline of purifying selection with age
Life history theory predicts that the intensity of selection declines with age, and this trend should impact how genes expressed at …
C. Cheng, M. Kirkpatrick
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Molecular evolution and the decline of purifying selection with age
Predicting the evolution of sexual dimorphism in gene expression
Sexual dimorphism in gene expression is likely to be the underlying source of dimorphism in a variety of traits. Many analyses …
D. Houle, C. Cheng
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Predicting the evolution of sexual dimorphism in gene expression
Predicting multivariate responses of sexual dimorphism to direct and indirect selection
Sexual dimorphism is often assumed to result from balancing the strength of antagonistic selection in favor of dimorphism against the …
C. Cheng, D. Houle
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Predicting multivariate responses of sexual dimorphism to direct and indirect selection