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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on September 30, 2004.
Genetics, Vol. 169, 485-488, January 2005, Copyright © 2005
doi:10.1534/genetics.104.031971
Epistasis Underlying a Fitness Trait Within a Natural Population of the Pitcher-Plant Mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii
William E. Bradshaw1, Brian P. Haggerty and Christina M. Holzapfel
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-5289
1 Corresponding author: CEEB, 5289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5289.
E-mail: wyomya{at}aol.com
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.
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