Quantitative genetic tests of recent senescene theory: age-specific mortality and male fertility in Drosophila melanogaster
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According to the Quantitative genetic models of aging, additive genetic variance for fitness components should increase with age. A large-scale quantitative genetic analysis of age-specific mortality and fertility in virgin male Drosophila melanogaster carried out to determine whether the decline in reproductive effort at late ages leads to a decrease in the genetic variance in mortality is presented.
Publication Name: Heredity
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0018-067X
Year: 2003
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The Hill-Robertson effect: evolutionary consequences of weak selection and linkage in finite populations
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A paper reviewing major concepts and simulation results associated with the Hill-Robertson effect is presented. The focus is on weak and moderate mutations as they contain a large number of weakly selected sites and these sites are likely to be physically clustered in exons and regulatory regions.
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Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0018-067X
Year: 2008
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Copy number of P elements, KP/full-sized P element ratio and their relationships with environmental factors in Brazilian Drosophila melanogaster populations
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The P transposable element copy numbers and the KP/full-sized P element ratios were determined with the help of eight Brazilian strains of Drosophila melanogaster. The full-sized P and KP elements were the predominant classes of elements in all the strains.
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Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0018-067X
Year: 2003
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