Loss of electrophoretic variation in serially bottlenecked populations.

doi:10.1038/hdy.1990.39

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Loss of electrophoretic variation in serially bottlenecked populations.

Heredity - 1 Jun 1990

McCommas S A, Bryant E H

Abstract excerpt

Experimental bottleneck lines were generated from a single outbred population of the housefly using one, four, or 16 pairs of flies. These lines were followed through one, three, or five successive founder-flush cycles. After each flush 30 individuals from each line were assayed for electrophoret...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Electrophoresis, Starch Gel
Female
Genetic Variation
Heterozygote
Houseflies
Phenotype
Polymorphism, Genetic

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