Area-wide Fruit Fly Programs in Hawaii, French Polynesia and California
(3/9/2011) 56 minutes

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Examine the island vs. multifarious hypotheses in Rhagoletis pomonella, a model for sympatric ecological speciation. Learn about finding widespread divergence throughout the Rhagoletis genome, with the majority of loci displaying host differences, latitudinal clines, correlations with adult eclosion time, and between-generation responses to selection in an over-wintering experiment.

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