Genetic analyses of pupation distance in drosophila melanogaster

ABSTRACT The inheritance of _Drosophila melanogaster_ larval pupation behaviour is investigated in sixteen reciprocal crosses between field collected lines. These lines were made isogenic

for the two major autosomes enabling the data to be analyzed using contrast analysis of variance and biometrical genetic analysis. Results of both analyses showed that the trait “pupation

distance”, the distance larvae pupate from food, fits a simple additive model of inheritance with no dominance. A chromosomal analysis showed that both the second and third chromosomes act

additively on pupation distance and that the third pair of chromosomes had a much larger effect than the second. Significant variability exists in the distance _D. melanogaster_ larvae

pupate from fruit in nature. This phenotypic variation results from both heritable variation and variation from environmental sources. When the moisture content of the environment

surrounding food is modified, gene by environment interactions also contribute to variation in the phenotype. Selective pressures which may act on larval differences in pupation site choice

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