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- Title
Spreading good news.
- Authors
FAWCETT, JEFFREY A.; INNAN, HIDEKI
- Abstract
The article is about the spread of beneficial mutation vertically and horizontally. The researchers from the University of California, Berkeley report that a mutation that has spread through these two mechanisms to multiple sites on the X chromosome of the fruit fly Drosophila miranda. The article focuses on two mutation, first recruit the molecular complex that carries out dosage compensation and second, allows genetic variation to migrate in the genome.
- Subjects
DROSOPHILA; GENETIC mutation; GENOMES; X chromosome; UNIVERSITY of California, Berkeley
- Publication
eLife, 2015, p1
- ISSN
2050-084X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7554/eLife.07108