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The genetic structure of natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. XX. Comparison of genotype-environment interaction in viability between a northern and a southern population.

Abstract：

:In order to examine the operation of diversifying selection as the maintenance mechanism of excessive additive genetic variance for viability in southern populations in comparison with northern populations of Drosophila melanogaster, two sets of experiments were conducted using second chromosomes extracted from the Ogasawara population (a southern population in Japan) and from the Aomori population (a northern population in Japan). Chromosomal homozygote and heterozygote viabilities were estimated in eight kinds of artificially produced breeding environments. The main findings in the present investigation are as follows: (1) Significant genotype-environment interaction was observed using chromosomes extracted from the Ogasawara population. Indeed, the estimate of the genotype-environment interaction variance for heterozygotes was significantly larger than that of the genotypic variance. On the other hand, when chromosomes sampled from the Aomori population were examined, that interaction variance was significant only for homozygotes and its value was no more than one quarter of that for the chromosomes from the Ogasawara population. (2) The average genetic correlation between any two viabilities of the same lines estimated in the eight kinds of breeding environments for the chromosomes sampled from the Ogasawara population was smaller than that for the chromosomes from the Aomori population both in homozygotes and in heterozygotes, especially in the latter. (3) The stability of heterozygotes over homozygotes against fluctuations of environmental conditions was seen in the chromosomes from the Ogasawara population, but not from the Aomori population. (4) From the excessive genotype-environment interaction variance compared with the genotypic variance in heterozygotes, it was suggested for the chromosomes from the Ogasawara population that the reversal of viability order between homozygotes took place in some environments at the locus level. On the basis of these findings, it is strongly suggested that diversifying selection is operating in a southern population of D. melanogaster on some of the viability polygenes which are probably located outside the structural loci, and the excessive additive genetic variance of viability in southern populations is maintained by this type of selection.

journal_name

Genetics

journal_title

Genetics

authors

Takano T,Kusakabe S,Mukai T

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-10-01 00:00:00

pages

245-54

issue

eissn

0016-6731

issn

1943-2631

journal_volume

117

pub_type

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The genetic structure of natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. XX. Comparison of genotype-environment interaction in viability between a northern and a southern population.