Research changes the paradigm of evolutionary timescales in fruit flies (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania

Research changes the paradigm of evolutionary timescales in fruit flies

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In a controlled field experiment, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania showed that fruit flies rapidly adapted to shifting environmental conditions, changing 60% of their genomes during the span of a four-month-long study.

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Seth Rudman

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