Evolution in the Dark Adaptation of Drosophila in the Laboratory /

• Main Authors: Fuse, Naoyuki (Author), Kitamura, Tasuku (Author), Haramura, Takashi (Author), Arikawa, Kentaro (Author), Imafuku, Michio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Biology,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Developmental biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Animal genetics.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Developmental Biology.

How organisms come to possess adaptive traits is a fundamental question for evolutionary biology. Although it is almost impossible to demonstrate evolution in the laboratory, this issue can be approached by using an unusual organism, “Dark-fly”: Drosophila melanogaster kept in complete darkness for...

Table of Contents:

• 1 History of the “Dark-fly” project
• 2 Circadian rhythms of Dark-fly. -3 Compound eyes of Dark-fly
• 4 Genome features of Dark-fly.