Selection for canalization at extra dorsocentral and scutellar bristles in Drosophila melanogaster.

Abstract excerpt

Direct artificial selection for a specific pattern, in the number and position of extra bristles, was carried out in a wild-type population of Drosophila melanogaster to canalize (estimated by probit width) the selected phenotypes. From the same population, independent lines were selected for ext...

Topics

• Animals
• Crosses, Genetic
• Drosophila melanogaster
• Female
• Hair
• Male
• Phenotype
• Selection, Genetic