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Regulatory Evolution of β-Carboxyl Esterases in Drosophila

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Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics of Drosophila

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Abstract

The last decade has seen great advances in our understanding of the cisacting elements controlling expression of several Drosophilagenes. Promoters for genes like alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh)and dopa decarboxylase (Ddc)have been dissected into several separable elements regulating different aspects of the level and cell-type specificity of transcription. As yet, however, relatively few studies have examined the population and evolutionary genetics of these ciscontrol elements.

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Oakeshott, J.G., Healy, M.J., Game, A.Y. (1990). Regulatory Evolution of β-Carboxyl Esterases in Drosophila. In: Barker, J.S.F., Starmer, W.T., MacIntyre, R.J. (eds) Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics of Drosophila . Monographs in Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8768-8_24

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