Article
Response to selection from new mutation and effective size of partially inbred populations. II. Experiments with Drosophila melanogaster.
Genetical research - 1 Dec 1995
Merchante M, Caballero A, López-Fanjul C
Abstract excerpt
Divergent artificial selection for abdominal bristle number in Drosophila melanogaster has been carried out starting from a genetically homogeneous base population. Lines with two different systems of mating, random (P lines) or between full sibs whenever possible (about 50%), random otherwise (I...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosomes
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Female
- Genetics, Population
- Inbreeding
- Male
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Population Density
- Selection, Genetic
