Stabilizing selection in Drosophila melanogaster.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a108666

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Stabilizing selection in Drosophila melanogaster.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Curtsinger J W

Abstract excerpt

Stabilizing selection operates on egg length in Drosophila melanogaster. The percentage of eggs hatching decreases with departure from the population mean size; this effect cannot be explained by the model of neutral variation in a quantitative character. The finding of stabilizing selection agre...

Topics

Animals
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genetic Variation
Heterozygote
Ovum
Selection, Genetic

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