Evolutionary Genetics: Reuse, Recycle, Converge.
Our understanding of how genetic changes underlie the evolution of traits is growing fast. Two new studies now show that changes in the same genetic loci can drive the evolution of the same trait in multiple Drosophila species.
Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 250 Bell Tower Drive, Genome Sciences Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27510, USA.
Charles J J
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Miller
Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 250 Bell Tower Drive, Genome Sciences Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27510, USA. Electronic address: dmatute@email.unc.edu.
Daniel R
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Matute
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