Sex-specific plasticity and the nutritional geometry of insulin-signaling gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster
Abstract Background Sexual-size dimorphism (SSD) is replete among animals, but while the selective pressures that drive the evolution of SSD have been well studied, the developmental mechanisms upon which these pressures act are poorly understood. Ours and others’ research has shown that SSD in D. m...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-05-01
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| Series: | EvoDevo |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-021-00175-0 |