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THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. XI. GENETIC VARIABILITY IN A LOCAL POPULATION
Terumi Mukai 1 and Osamu Yamaguchi 1
1 Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Six hundred and ninety-one second chromosomes were extracted from a Raleigh, North Carolina population, and the following experimental results were obtained: (1) Salivary gland chromosomes of all lines were observed and the number of inversion-carrying chromosomes was 130, among which 76 carried In(2R)NS, 36 carried In(2L)t, 4 carried In(2L)t and In(2R)NS, and 14 carried different kinds of rare inversions. (2) Viabilities of homozygotes and heterozygotes were examined. The frequency of lethal-carrying chromosomes was 275/691 (or 0.398):70/130 (or 0.538) in inversion-carrying chromosomes and 205/561 (or 0.365) in inversion-free chromosomes. The former is significantly higher than the latter. The average homozygote viability was 0.4342 including lethal lines and 0.7163 excluding those, the average heterozygote viability being 1.0000. The detrimental load to lethal load ratio (D:L ratio) was 0.334/0.501 = 0.67. The average viability of lethal heterozygotes was less than that of lethal-free heterozygotes, significantly in inversion-free individuals but not significantly so in inversion-carrying individuals. Inversion heterozygotes seem to have slightly better viability than the inversion-free heterozygotes on the average, but not significantly so. (3) The average degree of dominance of viability polygenes was estimated to be 0.293 ± 0.071 for all heterozygotes whose component chromosomes had better viabilities than 0.6 of the average heterozygote viability, 0.177 ± 0.077 for inversion-free heterozygotes and 0.489 ± 0.082 for inversion heterozygotes. (4) Mutation rates of viability polygenes and lethal genes were estimated on the basis of genetic loads and average degrees of dominance of lethal genes and viability polygenes. Estimates were very close to those obtained by direct estimation. (5) Possible overdominance and epistasis were detected, but the magnitude must be very small. (6) The effective size of the population was estimated to be much greater than 10,000 by using the allelism rate of lethal-carrying chromosomes (0.0040) and their frequency.—On the basis of these findings and the comparison with the predicted result (Mukai and Maruyama 1971), the mechanisms of the maintenance of genetic variability in the population are discussed.
Submitted on March 3, 1973Revised on September 28, 1973
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