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Selection in experimental populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura with different initial frequencies of chromosomal variants*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

T. Watanabe ,
W. W. Anderson ,
Th. Dobzhansky  and
O. Pavlovsky
T. Watanabe
Affiliation:
The Rockefeller University, New York
W. W. Anderson
Affiliation:
The Rockefeller University, New York
Th. Dobzhansky
Affiliation:
The Rockefeller University, New York
O. Pavlovsky
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven

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Eight experimental populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura were made in laboratory population cages. All were polymorphic for ST, AR, CH, and PP gene arrangements in their third chromosomes, and all the chromosomes were of the same geographic origin. The initial frequencies of the gene arrangements were, however, different in the different populations. Natural selection has caused frequency changes in all the populations, from which we have attempted to infer the adaptive values of the different karyotypes. There was no evidence that the adaptive values were different in the populations begun from different initial frequencies of the inversions, although our ability to demonstrate such differences is severely limited. The selection process in these populations has been complex, and the simple model of constant adaptive values does not fit.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1970 , pp. 123 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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