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Further evidence for coadaptation in crosses between geographic populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Wyatt W. Anderson
Wyatt W. Anderson
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The Rockefeller University, New York City
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Body size in Drosophila pseudoobscura is a continuously varying character with a high heritability; it is almost certainly related to fitness. Natural populations of D. pseudoobscura from Canada to Mexico have been sampled and found to vary geographically in body size. The geographic variation for the genes determining size is to some extent correlated with the physiographic division of the West. The populations from the Pacific coast have genetically smaller flies than do those from the interior provinces. Experimental populations derived from the samples of seven widely separated natural populations were crossed to yield F1 and F2 hybrid generations. Body size in the F1's varied irregularly, while the F2's showed a consistent ‘breakdown’, the F2's being significantly smaller than their F1 parents. The F1's were significantly less variable than their parents, while the F2's were significantly more variable than their parents of the F1 generation. The natural populations possess coadapted genetic systems, with genes mutually adjusted by selection for favorable interactions. Recombination disrupted the balanced genic complexes to give the F2 breakdown and the increased F2 variability. D. pseudoobscura differs from D. subobscura in showing the effects expected in crosses between coadapted systems. This species difference lends additional support to the hypothesis that the gene pools of these two successful species respond in different ways to environmental variation. The gene pool of D. pseudoobscura is flexible and changes readily, while that of D. subobscura is relatively rigid.

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Genetics Research , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , December 1968 , pp. 317 - 330
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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