Rapid evolutionary change, constraints and the maintenance of polymorphism in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

A Glaser‐Schmitt, TJS Ramnarine… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Allele frequencies can shift rapidly within natural populations. Under certain conditions,
repeated rapid allele frequency shifts can lead to the long‐term maintenance of …

Genetic, Environmental, and Stochastic Components of Lifespan Variability: The Drosophila Paradigm

OV Bylino, AA Ogienko, MA Batin, PG Georgiev… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Lifespan is a complex quantitative trait involving genetic and non-genetic factors as well as
the peculiarities of ontogenesis. As with all quantitative traits, lifespan shows considerable …

Pervasive tissue-, genetic background-, and allele-specific gene expression effects in Drosophila melanogaster

A Glaser-Schmitt, M Lemoine, M Kaltenpoth… - Plos Genetics, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The pervasiveness of gene expression variation and its contribution to phenotypic variation
and evolution is well known. This gene expression variation is context dependent, with …