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SELECTION BY FERTILITY IN DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA
Wyatt W. Anderson 1 and Takao K. Watanabe 1
1 Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
Fertility, the component of selection due to female fecundity and male mating success, differed significantly among the ST/ST, ST/AR, and AR/AR karyotypes in experimental populations and varied with karyotypic frequency. In relation to ST/AR, ST/ST females and males had higher fertilities at low frequency; AR/AR males and females were at a significant fertility disadvantage at intermediate frequency, while at low and at high frequencies their fertilities matched or exceeded that of the heterokaryotype. These fertility differences were comparable in size to viability differences previously reported for D. pseudoobscura karyotypes. Differential fertility seems likely to be an important element, perhaps just as important as differential viability, in the balancing selection that maintains the chromosomal polymorphism in this species.
Submitted on December 27, 1972Revised on February 25, 1974
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