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← Collaborators publish a study showing how evolutionary changes in a transcriptional silencer shaped the repeated evolution of a fruit fly trait. Might be a first description of a pervasive mechanism of evolutionary change!
Using Drosophila pigmentation traits to study the mechanisms of cis-regulatory evolution →

Drosophilaphilia #2: Silencing silencers to evolve new patterns

Posted on July 20, 2015 by williatv

Drosophilaphilia #2: Silencing silencers to evolve new patterns.

 

Nice thoughtful overview on my collaborator’s new publication!

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