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Regular responses to selection 3. Interaction between located polygenes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

S. G. Spickett  and
J. M. Thoday
S. G. Spickett
Affiliation:
Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
J. M. Thoday
Affiliation:
Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
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1. This paper describes further investigations of the high sternopleural chaeta-number lines of Drosophila melanogaster established by directional selection by Thoday & Boam (Genet. Res. 2, 161). The lines are vg 4 with a mean of 35·6 and vg 6 with a mean of 39·2 chaetae per fly.

2. Two locatable polygenes, 3a and 3b, distinguish the line third chromosomes from those of Oregon inbred (mean about 20·5, an ancestor of all the lines). These two genes are both located between the markers h and eyg and do not interact.

3. There is one locatable polygene at 41·1 ± 1·7 centiMorgans distinguishing the line second chromosomes from those of Oregon. There is no evidence that this gene is a linked complex, and, if it be a linked complex, it is unlikely to occupy more than 2 map units of the second linkage group. It interacts strongly and positively with the gene 3a.

4. These three genes account for 80% of the genetic variance of the vg 4 × Oregon F2.

5. Two separate regions at 2·4 ± 0·5 and 50·5 ± 0·9 centiMorgans distinguish the vg 6 × chromosome from that of Oregon. They do not appear to interact. Together they interact strongly and positively with gene 3a.

6. These five genes account for 87·5% of the chaeta-number difference between vg 6 and Oregon.

7. The locatable polygenes on chromosomes II and III each have qualitatively distinguishable developmental effects.

8. It is pointed out that, though the genetics of these lines may be unusually simple, the results indicate that attempts to locate specific genes and study their individual effects should be made more often by students of continuous variation. Since the location of the polygene in chromosome II was done using marker genes 45 map units apart, such studies may be practicable even in species whose linkage groups are much less well marked than those of Drosophila melanogaster.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1966 , pp. 96 - 121
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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