Genetics in Your World

Variation Reconsidered: Selection Schemes for Phenotypic Variability Beyond Trait Means — A Conversation with Dr. Shraddha Lall


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In this episode of Genetics in Your World, GSA Early Career Scientist Multimedia Subcommittee co-chair Sarah Renee Phillips interviews Dr. Shraddha Lall of Harvard University about the evolution of variation in behavior in Drosophila. Read Dr. Lall’s paper titled, “Family-based selection: An efficient method for increasing phenotypic variability,” published in the October 2025 issue of G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics: https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf165.


Music: Loopster Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/


#genetics #evolution #Drosophila #behavior #variation #selection

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