Isofemale lines in Drosophila: An empirical approach to quantitative trait analysis in natural populations
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The isofemale line technique (ILT), a basic tool for sampling a natural population, used for a diversity of purposes in the fields of quantitative and ecological genetics is reviewed. It is argued that in the future isofemale lines will have an increasing significance among the various techniques appropriate to the analysis of quantitative evolutionary genetics in a diversity of species.
Publication Name: Heredity
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0018-067X
Year: 2005
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Phenotypic plasticity of body pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster: genetic repeatability of quantitative parameters in two successive generations
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Body pigmentation, in drosophila melanogaster, is a quantitative trait that depends on developmental temperature. The isofemale line method is used to analyze the genetic variability in two natural populations that affected the shape of reaction norms and twenty lines from two geographically distant populations are investigated at seven developmental temperatures.
Publication Name: Heredity
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0018-067X
Year: 2004
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Microspatial structure of Drosophila melanogaster populations in Brazzaville: evidence of natural selection acting on morphometrical traits
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Research has been conducted on genetically distinct habitat races of Drosophila melanogaster coexisting in Congo, Brazzaville. The authors have concluded that selective forces maintaining genetic divergence between these habitat races act on morphometrical traits, and they have investigated and discussed the selective mechanisms.
Publication Name: Heredity
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0018-067X
Year: 2003
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