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. 2020 Jul;74(7):1573-1574.
doi: 10.1111/evo.13997. Epub 2020 May 27.

Digest: Evolution of a robust phenotype in Drosophila

Pranjan Gandhi  1
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Digest: Evolution of a robust phenotype in Drosophila

Pranjan Gandhi. Evolution. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

Do developmentally robust phenotypes evolve over the evolutionary history of a genus, and if so, how? Kalay et al. found that segmentation along the head to tail axis, a robust phenotype, has evolved in Drosophila over the evolutionary history of the genus, primarily through many small changes.

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