Epistasis Underlying a Fitness Trait Within a Natural Population of the Pitcher-Plant Mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii
Open Access
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 169 (1) , 485-488
Abstract
We selected on divergent photoperiodic response in three separate lines from a natural population of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Line crosses reveal that there exists within a population, diverse epistatic variation for a fitness trait that could contribute to adaptive potential following founder events or rapid climate change.Keywords
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