CHROMOSOME INTERACTIONS IN DROSOPHILA ROBUSTA

Chromosome interactions in Drosophila robusta.

M O S T of the population genetics work on Drosophila species has been done with polymorphism at a single gene locus or different gene arrangements in one chromosome which behave in inheritance as single genetic units. However, little attention has been given to the problem of interactions between unlinked polymorphic loci. Consider two unlinked autosomal loci A and B and their variant alleles ...

Food preference in Drosophila robusta and Drosophila tripunctata following desiccation

DNA-protein interactions in the Drosophila virilis mitochondrial chromosome.

The location of proteins on the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Drosophila virilis was investigated by Me3 psoralen photoreaction of mitochondria isolated from embryos. After photoreaction the mtDNA was purified and the pattern of DNA cross-linking was determined by electron microscopy of the DNA under totally denaturing conditions. The transcribed regions of the mtDNA molecule contained some uncr...

Chromosome interactions in Drosophila melanogaster. I. Viability studies.

The nature of fitness interactions is an important, yet unsolved, question in population genetics. We compare the egg-to-adult viability of individuals homozygous for either a second or a third chromosome with the viability of individuals homozygous for both chromosomes simultaneously. On the average, the viability of the two-chromosome homozygotes is somewhat greater than expected assuming tha...

Sexual Selection Operating in a Wild Population of Drosophila Robusta.

Almost 60 years have elapsed since the discovery of variation in the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila (Sturtevant and Dobzhansky 1936). Inversion polymorphism studies have revealed some of the intricacies of evolutionary change, but even now, when interest in them has waned, there is little understanding of the particular alleles contained within them that alone or in relation to other genes ...