Grant Identifying genes causing thermal evolution of ectotherm body size

Australian Research Council Discovery Project

From

2007

To

2011

Keywords

Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics and Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)

Alternative Names

Website

http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/grant13415

McKechnie, S. W., Blacket, M. J., Song, S. V., Rako, L., Carroll, X., Johnson, T. K., Jensen, L. T., Lee, S. F., Wee, C. W., and Hoffmann, A. A., 'A clinally varying promoter polymorphism associated with adaptive variation in wing size in Drosophila', Molecular Ecology, vol. 19, no. 4, 2010, pp. 775-784. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04509.x. Details

Daborn, P., Robin, C. and Hoffmann, A.A., 'Fighting fly genes', Trends in Genetics, vol. 23, no. 2, 2007, pp. 51-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2006.12.005. Details
Hoffmann, A.A. Ratna, E. Sgrò, C.M. Barton, M. Blacket, M. Hallas, R. De Garis, S. Weeks, A.R., 'Antagonistic selection between adult thorax and wing size in field released Drosophila melanogaster independent of thermal conditions', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 20, no. 6, 2007, pp. 2219-2227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01422.x. Details
Kennington, W. Jason and Hoffmann, Ary A., 'The genetic architecture of wing size divergence at varying spatial scales along a body size cline in Drosophila melanogaster', Evolution, vol. 64, no. 7, 2010, pp. 1935-1943. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00975.x. Details
Lee, S. F., Rako, L., and Hoffmann, A. A., 'Genetic mapping of adaptive wing size variation in Drosophila simulans', Heredity, vol. 107, no. 1, 2011, pp. 22-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2010.150. Details

Australian Drosophila Ecology & Evolution Resource Hoffmann Lab, The University of Melbourne, and other contributors