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Genetic Variance for Viability and Linkage Disequilibrium in Natural Populations of Drosophila Melanogaster

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Measuring Selection in Natural Populations

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Genetic load and genetic variance are the most common measures of genetic variability in random mating populations. Although a large number of investigations have been carried out for the former, only few papers have been published for the latter. Recently, some studies have been done to detect linkage disequilibrium in order to test whether or not epistasis is common between polymorphic isozyme genes (Mukai, Mettler, and Chigusa 1971; Langley, Tobari, and Kojima 1974, and others). In the present paper, an attempt was made to find the mechanisms whereby the genetic variability has been maintained in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster, using the estimates of the above three genetic parameters and the cumulative heterozygous effects on viability and fecundity of polymorphic isozyme gene loci.

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  1. Department of Ecology and Genetics, Ny Munkegade, Aarhus Universitet, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

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Mukai, T. (1977). Genetic Variance for Viability and Linkage Disequilibrium in Natural Populations of Drosophila Melanogaster . In: Christiansen, F.B., Fenchel, T.M. (eds) Measuring Selection in Natural Populations. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93071-3_6

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