Increased mutation in crosses between geographically separated strains of Drosophila melanogaster.
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 77 (2) , 1059-1062
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.77.2.1059
Abstract
Mutator activity associated with the common male recombination (MR) chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster appears to be suppressed in natural populations. Crosses between geographically separated populations, however, lead to the release of mutator activity as measured by a significant increase in visible mutations. Such an increase in mutation in hybrid individuals may be a powerful factor in inducing or releasing variation in nature, and in more extreme instances may contribute to the separation of microdifferentiated populations.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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