Title |
Genetic basis of wing morphogenesis in Drosophila: sexual dimorphism and non-allometric effects of shape variation
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Published in |
BMC Developmental Biology, June 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-213x-11-32 |
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Authors |
Valeria P Carreira, Ignacio M Soto, Julián Mensch, Juan J Fanara |
Abstract |
The Drosophila wing represents a particularly appropriate model to investigate the developmental control of phenotypic variation. Previous studies which aimed to identify candidate genes for wing morphology demonstrated that the genetic basis of wing shape variation in D. melanogaster is composed of numerous genetic factors causing small, additive effects. In this study, we analyzed wing shape in males and females from 191 lines of D. melanogaster, homozygous for a single P-element insertion, using geometric morphometrics techniques. The analysis allowed us to identify known and novel candidate genes that may contribute to the expression of wing shape in each sex separately and to compare them to candidate genes affecting wing size which have been identified previously using the same lines. |
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