Selection for oviposition preference inDrosophila melanogaster
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Genetics Research
- Vol. 48 (3) , 151-160
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016672300024940
Abstract
Populations of Drosophila melanogaster were subjected to selection for differing oviposition preference under allopatric and sympatric conditions. Flies were presented with the choice of a potato-based medium and a medium containing sugar and killed yeast on which to lay their eggs. Some gene flow was possible under sympatric conditions. In the allopatric lines selection was successful in rapidly generating an increased preference for sugar, and in the sympatric lines divergent oviposition preferences were generated in two cases out of four. A significant degree of reproductive isolation between one pair of allopatric lines was generated after eighteen months of selection.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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