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Artificial selection with differing population structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

K. A. Rathie  and
F. W. Nicholas
K. A. Rathie
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Husbandry, University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006, Australia
F. W. Nicholas
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Husbandry, University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006, Australia
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The effect of subdivision of a population on response to artificial directional selection for abdominal bristle number in Drosophila melanogaster was compared using large, replicated lines. Three different population structures were compared: (i) selection in an Undivided, large population with 50 pairs of parents (treatment U); (ii) selection in each of 10 sublines which were reconstituted every 6th generation by Crossing after Culling the 5 lowest sublines (treatment CC); and (iii) selection in each of 10 sublines which were reconstituted every 6th generation by Crossing after Retaining all 10 sublines (treatment CR). At the end of three cycles of selection and crossing, neither CR nor CC was superior to U; sublining did not increase response to selection. These results agree with the predictions arising from an entirely additive model and provide no evidence for the presence of epistasis.

A comparison of 50-pair lines (U) with several 5-pair lines was made over 31 generations. For the 50-pair lines, there was close agreement between response predicted from the base population (using ih2σp) and observed response throughout all 31 generations of selection. Although the best of the 5-pair lines exceeded the 50-pair lines in the early generations, average response to directional selection in the 5-pair lines soon fell behind that predicted from ih2σp, and soon reached a plateau.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , October 1980 , pp. 117 - 131
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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