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Measuring fitness by means of balancer chromosomes.

Genetical research - 1 Jun 2000

Barton N H, Partridge L

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We present the theoretical background to a new method for measuring genetic variation for total fitness in Drosophila. The method allows heterozygous effects on total fitness of whole wild-type chromosomes to be measured under normal demography with overlapping generations. The wild-type chromosomes are competed against two balancer chromosomes (B1, B2, say), providing a standard genotype B1/B2 against which...

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PMID: 10893866
DOI: 10.1017/s0016672399004346

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