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Ives PT, Band HT. CONTINUING STUDIES ON THE SOUTH AMHERST DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER NATURAL POPULATION DURING THE 1970'S AND 1980'S. Evolution. 1986;40(6):1289-1302doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1986.tb05752.x.
Ives, P. T., & Band, H. T. (1986). CONTINUING STUDIES ON THE SOUTH AMHERST DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER NATURAL POPULATION DURING THE 1970'S AND 1980'S. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 40(6), 1289-1302. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1986.tb05752.x
Ives, P T, and Band, H T. "CONTINUING STUDIES ON THE SOUTH AMHERST DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER NATURAL POPULATION DURING THE 1970'S AND 1980'S." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution vol. 40,6 (1986): 1289-1302. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1986.tb05752.x
Ives PT, Band HT. CONTINUING STUDIES ON THE SOUTH AMHERST DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER NATURAL POPULATION DURING THE 1970'S AND 1980'S. Evolution. 1986 Nov;40(6):1289-1302. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1986.tb05752.x. PMID: 28563498.
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Evolution. 1986 Nov;40(6):1289-1302. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1986.tb05752.x.

CONTINUING STUDIES ON THE SOUTH AMHERST DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER NATURAL POPULATION DURING THE 1970'S AND 1980'S.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution

P T Ives, H T Band

Affiliations

  1. Webster Center for Biological Sciences, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 01002.
  2. Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824.

PMID: 28563498 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1986.tb05752.x

Abstract

Continuing investigations on the South Amherst Drosophila melanogaster natural population following the significant decline and recovery of lethal (le) and semilethal (sle) frequencies in the late 1960's (Ives, 1970) show that the population has been remarkably stable although it contains MR (male recombination) and/or P DNA elements (Kidwell et al., 1977a; Green, 1980). A 13-year study affirms that the lethals present are nonrandomly distributed along the second chromosome and deficient on the right; they differ significantly in distribution from spontaneous (Ives, 1973) and δ-induced lethals (Minamori and Ito, 1971). Between 1970 and 1977, a total of 4,083 second chromosomes from the Markert subpopulation were analyzed; 28.9% of the chromosomes were lethal and 7.25% were semilethal in homozygous condition. Frequencies are similar for early summer and late fall collections although the rate of allelism among lethals is significantly higher in early summer than in late fall. For the large fall (1970-1979) Porch site population, 2,519 second chromosomes were analyzed; 29.5% were lethal and 8.0% were sublethal as homozygotes; the rate of allelism among lethals was 1.50%. At Hockanum, 1977-1983, lethal and semilethal frequencies were lower; the rate of allelism among lethals was 1.43%. The chromosome map distribution of lethals does not change between summer and late fall at Markert. The overall distributions of lethals at the Markert and Hockanum sites are similar. In tests for male recombination (MR) activity in the population over a 6-year period, a total of 0.47% recombinants were observed; these were uniformly distributed along the second chromosome. Comparisons are made with other long studied D. melanogaster populations.

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