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Regular responses to selection I. Description of responses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

J. M. Thoday and
T. B. Boam
J. M. Thoday
Affiliation:
Genetics Department, Sheffield University
T. B. Boam
Affiliation:
Genetics Department, Sheffield University
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1. Several lines of Drosophila melanogaster have been selected for increase of sternopleural chaeta-number.

2. Three lines of the same origin, dp 1, dp 2 and dp 6, showed remarkably similar patterns of response involving an accelerated response from 24 to 28 chaetae and a plateau at about 30 chaetae. A line formed by crossing two of these was not responsive to selection, suggesting that the two parent lines were genetically similar.

3. A fourth line, vg 4, related to these others, showed a similar accelerated response but continued to respond beyond 30 chaetae, reaching a plateau at about 37 chaetae.

4. A further line, vg 6, set up by crossing two ‘improved’ lines, one with 30, the other with 22 chaetae, reached 46 chaetae and suggests there may sometimes be merit in selecting from the hybrids of ‘improved’ strains.

5. It is argued that the event making possible the accelerated response is probably a recombinational event.

6. The line vg 4 clearly demonstrates that some of the genes that may be exploited in a selection experiment have to be exploited in a particular order because of gene interactions.

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Genetics Research , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 1961, pp. 161 - 176
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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