Selection for early and late adult emergence alters the rate of pre-adult development in <it>Drosophila melanogaster</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Circadian clocks have been implicated in the regulation of pre-adult development of fruit flies <it>Drosophila melanogaster</it>. It is believed that faster clocks speed up development and slower clocks slow it down. We e...

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Main Authors: Sharma Vijay K, Kumar Dhanya, Vaze Koustubh M, Kumar Shailesh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-11-01
Series:BMC Developmental Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-213X/6/57