Loci Contributing to Boric Acid Toxicity in Two Reference Populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Populations maintain considerable segregating variation in the response to toxic, xenobiotic compounds. To identify variants associated with resistance to boric acid, a commonly-used household insecticide with a poorly understood mechanism of action, we assayed thousands of individuals from hundreds...

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Main Authors: Michael A. Najarro, Jennifer L. Hackett, Stuart J. Macdonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2017-06-01
Series:G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
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MPP
Online Access:http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.117.041418