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- Title
Selection in experimental populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura with different initial frequencies of chromosomal variants.
- Authors
Watanabe, T.; Anderson, W. W.; Dobzhansky, Th.; Pavlovsky, O.
- Abstract
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.
- Publication
Genetics Research, 1970, Vol 15, Issue 1, p123
- ISSN
0016-6723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0016672300001427