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TWiEVO 10: Spicing up peppered moths with a selfish gene

  • August 13, 2016
  • Tagged as: carbonaria moth, evolution, industrial melanism, industrial revolution, linkage disequilibrium, peppered moth, transposable element, transposon, typica moth
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Nels and Vincent review experiments showing that the replacement of a pale moth with a black one during the industrial revolution was caused by a transposable element.

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