Fitness consequences of sex chromosome aneuploidy in Drosophila melanogaster.

Abstract excerpt

Of the array of spontaneous mutations that can occur, changes to chromosome number may have the greatest impact on the evolutionary potential of populations and the condition of affected individuals. Chromosomal nondisjunction resulting in aneuploidy is found across eukaryotes, but the consequences of such karyotypic variation have not been widely explored. In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, aneuploid...

Topics

• Animals
• Drosophila melanogaster
• Aneuploidy
• Female
• Male
• Genetic Fitness
• Fertility