LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. SEASONAL VARIATION

1 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
2 Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27607

Linkage disequilibrium among ten polymorphic allozyme loci and polymorphic inversions on chromosomes 2 and 3 in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster was examined early and late in the annual season. Similar to previous studies, little linkage disequilibrium was observed among allozymes. The two significant cases that were observed in the first sample behaved in a contradictory way. One declined much more rapidly than expected due simply to recombination; the other declined slowly as expected. There was little change in allozyme or inversion frequencies during the season.

Submitted on June 20, 1976
Revised on December 21, 1976




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