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Genetic differences between populations of Drosophila melanogaster for a quantitative trait: II. Wild and laboratory populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

C. López-Fanjul  and
W. G. Hill
C. López-Fanjul
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh EH9 3JN
W. G. Hill
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh EH9 3JN
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Crosses were made between four populations of Drosophila melanogaster – three of which were laboratory populations (Kaduna, Pacific and Canberra) and one recently captured (Stellenbosch) – and a line previously selected for low sternopleural bristle number for many generations from a Kaduna/Pacific source. In each of six replicate lines from each cross selection was practised for low sternopleural bristle number, and subsequently these replicates were intercrossed and reselected.

Initially, similar responses were made in each set of lines, but subsequently more variation between replicates was found in Stellenbosch, which was the primary source of lines which responded to a level below that of the original selected line.

It is concluded that this newly captured population contains genetic variability absent from the laboratory populations. Presumably variability has been lost from the latter populations, leaving essentially the same genes segregating in each.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , August 1973 , pp. 69 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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