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One of the main topics in population and evolutionary genetics has been the question whether electrophoretic variants, encoded by a single structural gene and involved in the same biochemical reaction, are selectively neutral (Nei and Koehn 1983). Only for a very few enzyme loci have selective differences between enzyme variants been established; α-amylase in the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, is among the best characterized (Scharloo 1984). The significance of regulatory variation has only been recently recognized (Maclntyre 1982; Wilson 1985).
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Klarenberg, A.J. (1988). The Functional Significance of Regulatory Gene Variation: The α-Amylase Gene-Enzyme System of Drosophila melanogaster . In: de Jong, G. (eds) Population Genetics and Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73069-6_19
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