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- October 27, 2008
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Evolution in Action: Fruit Flies Evolve Low Oxygen Tolerance in the Lab
by Irradiatus in biochemicalsoul
In a cool new study in PLoS Genetics, through artificial selection researchers have allowed fruit flies (Drosophila) to evolve tolerance to normally lethal low levels of Oxygen.... Read more »
Dan Zhou, Jin Xue, James C. K. Lai, Nicholas J. Schork, Kevin P. White, Gabriel G. Haddad, & Eric Rulifson. (2008) Mechanisms Underlying Hypoxia Tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster: hairy as a Metabolic Switch. PLoS Genetics, 4(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000221
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