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PROPERTIES AND EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL OF NEWLY INDUCED TANDEM DUPLICATIONS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Paul A. Roberts 1 and David J. Broderick 1
1 Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331
Most of some 33 X-ray-induced duplications recovered as Suppressors of Minute loci proved to be direct tandem duplications. When heterozygous, most duplications were crossover suppressors, and duplications of short to moderate size did not reduce the fitness of their bearers. Crossover suppression by tandem duplication may be attributed to intrastrand foldbacks of the type regularly seen in somatic polytene chromosomes. As a consequence, linkage disequilibrium between duplicated elements and normal chromosomes should be more profound than has been supposed. Tandem duplications appear to be predisposed by reason of frequency of generation, crossover suppression and fitness effects to serve as the primary source of new genes.
Submitted on August 17, 1981Accepted on May 7, 1982
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