A Study of Deleterious Genes in Some Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster in Japan
- 1 January 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Genetics Society of Japan in The Japanese Journal of Genetics
- Vol. 37 (1) , 36-41
- https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.37.36
Abstract
Four natural populations of D. melanogaster in western and central Japan were studied. Lethal chromosome frequencies, allelic rates of lethal genes, and homozygous viabilities of quasi-normal chromosomes were estimated in the second chromosomes of each population. The combined frequencies of lethal and semi-lethal chromosomes in each population were 7. 3, 15.1, 15. 7 and 20.1%. The mean viabilities of quasi-normal chromosomes in 3 populations were about 32%. The allelic rates within these 3 populations were 4.1, 5. 3 and 70%.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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