Rapid genomic changes in Drosophila melanogaster adapting to desiccation stress in an experimental evolution system

Lin Kang, Dau Dayal Aggarwal, Eugenia Rashkovetsky, Abraham Korol, Pawel Michalak

BMC Genomics · 2016 · 51 citations · 74 references

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Abstract

Desiccation stress, a common challenge to many organisms inhabiting dry environments, proves to be a very potent selecting factor having a big impact on genome diversity.

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