Quantifying adaptive evolution in the Drosophila immune system.

It is estimated that a large proportion of amino acid substitutions in Drosophila have been fixed by natural selection, and as organisms are faced with an ever-changing array of pathogens and parasites to which they must adapt, we have investigated the role of parasite-mediated selection as a likely...

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Main Authors: Darren J Obbard, John J Welch, Kang-Wook Kim, Francis M Jiggins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2759075?pdf=render