Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Regulation of gene expression and RNA editing in Drosophila adapting to divergent microclimates

  • Arielle L. Yablonovitch,
  • Jeremy Fu,
  • Kexin Li,
  • Simpla Mahato,
  • Lin Kang,
  • Eugenia Rashkovetsky,
  • Abraham B. Korol,
  • Hua Tang,
  • Pawel Michalak,
  • Andrew C. Zelhof,
  • Eviatar Nevo,
  • Jin Billy Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01658-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Environmental adaptation is generally studied at the genomic level, but it may also be driven by transcriptional processes. Here, the authors investigate variation in gene expression and RNA editing across diverging populations of Drosophila melanogaster from two microclimates.