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The Journal of Heredity 1978:69(2):135-136
© 1978 The American Genetic Association 69:135-136

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Genetic variation in a heterogeneous environment

VI. A possible experimental system

PHILIP W. HEDRICK

The author is associate professor in the Division of Biological Sciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045

Abstract

Gene frequency change for the white allele in Drosophila melanogaster differed for populations kept in constant dark and constant light. The changes were explained satisfactorily by a computer program that allowed differential mating ability in males and differential fecundity in females. Although the changes in gene frequency are predictable, the system does not appear to be a good one to evaluate balancing selection in a variable environment, since the white allele becomes lost in both constant light and constant dark.


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