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THE GENETIC VARIANCE FOR VIABILITY AND ITS COMPONENTS IN A LOCAL POPULATION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Terumi Mukai 1, Ricardo A. Cardellino 1, Takao K. Watanabe 1, and James F. Crow 1
1 Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 and University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Two hundred and ninety second chromosomes extracted from a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster were analyzed to estimate the genetic variance of viability and its components by means of a partial diallel cross (Design II of Comstock and Robinson 1952). The additive and dominance variances are estimated to be 0.009 and 0.0012. Using the dominance variance and the inbreeding depression, the effective number of overdominant loci contributing to the variance in viability is estimated to be very small, a dozen or less. Either the actual number of loci is small, or the distribution of viabilities is strongly skewed with a large majority of very weakly selected loci. The additive variance in viability appears to be too large to be accounted for by recurrent harmful mutants or by overdominant loci at equilibrium with various genetic parameters estimated independently. The excess might be due to frequency-dependent selection, to negative correlations between viability and fertility, or possibly to the presence of a mutator. The selection for viability and fertility, or possibly to the presence of a mutator. The selection for viability at the average polymorphic locus must be very slight, of the order of 10-3 or less.
Submitted on August 20, 1973Revised on June 14, 1974
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