Balancing Selection: Walking a Tightrope

Andrew D. Gloss; Noah K. Whiteman

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.023

Balancing Selection: Walking a Tightrope

Andrew D. Gloss, Noah K. Whiteman

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Abstract

Combining modern transgenic techniques with fitness measurements and enzyme activity assays, a new study demonstrates a habitat-dependent tradeoff between two alleles of a key detoxification enzyme in fruit flies. The elegant findings provide concrete, elusive evidence supporting a foundational and controversial theory about the maintenance of genetic variation.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R73-R76
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	26
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.023
State	Published - Jan 25 2016

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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