Evolutionary Biology 1972
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-0256-9_4
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The Ecological Genetics of Drosophila

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“…In short-lived species which produce a succession of generations each year, each individual should ideally be maximally adapted to the environment it encounters. Adaptation of this sort may be achieved by genetic polymorphism, in which selection adjusts the frequencies of the morphs on a cyclical, seasonal basis (Drosophila inversions, Dobzhansky et al, 1966;Parsons and McKenzie, 1972;Adalia bipunctata, Timofeef-Ressovsky, 1940). In such cases, high average fitness over the entire year is achieved through a substantial genetic load in all generations, and there is a permanent time lag between the state of the environment and the state of the population.…”
Section: Evolution Of Polyphenisms: Bradshaw's Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In short-lived species which produce a succession of generations each year, each individual should ideally be maximally adapted to the environment it encounters. Adaptation of this sort may be achieved by genetic polymorphism, in which selection adjusts the frequencies of the morphs on a cyclical, seasonal basis (Drosophila inversions, Dobzhansky et al, 1966;Parsons and McKenzie, 1972;Adalia bipunctata, Timofeef-Ressovsky, 1940). In such cases, high average fitness over the entire year is achieved through a substantial genetic load in all generations, and there is a permanent time lag between the state of the environment and the state of the population.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…for cold tolerance (Heuts, 1948) and mating speed and duration of copulation at high temperatures (Parsons and Kaul, 1966). Probably the best example is that of Thomson (1964; and see also Parsons and McKenzie, 1971) for desiccation. Thus it can be argued that heterokaryotype advantage is minimal in optimal environments and much more pronounced in extreme environments.…”
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“…Examples of the dependence of enzyme polymorphisms on the environment (and see also Parsons and McKenzie, 1971) comes from a dine in D. ananassae for the major allele in the Est-C system in the Pacific such that its frequency increases from north to south towards the equator and then south of the equator it decreases (Stone, Kojima and Johnson, 1969), suggesting a partial association with temperature, and from a possible association with environment in particular the weather in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrex barbatus in Texas . In laboratory populations of D. melanogaster, Beardmore (1970) has shown that the frequency of the esterase_6?…”
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“…Estudios pioneros de la ecología de los Drosophilidae fueron conducidos por diversos autores; algunos de los reportes relevantes que tratan del tema en forma similar a la manera que lo abordamos son los de Dobzhansky y Pavan (11 y 12), quienes estudiaron poblaciones brasileñas de Drosophila reportando las frecuencias y distribución de las especies colectadas así como sus preferencias alimenticias y ciclicidad estacional; Heed (13) estudió en El Salvador comunidades de Drosophilidae analizando el nú-mero de especies presentes, su variación estacional, sitios de alimentación adulta y larval así como la distribución de las especies con respecto a la altitud de las localidades en donde fueron colectadas; Pavan (14) y Pavan y da Cunha (15) reportaron la distribución de especies de Drosophila prestando atención a los aspectos sistemáticos de este grupo, caracterización y determinación de especies; de manera similar Patterson y Mainland (2) estudiaron a las drosofilas de Méxi-co; por su parte Parsons y Mckenzie (16) en una revisión general analizaron varios factores genéticos y de cómo fueron afectados por los cambios ambientales; posterior a ellos Brncic y colaboradores (17) informaron del comportamiento de una comunidad de Drosophila de Chile prestando especial atención a la naturaleza cíclica de los patrones de diversidad, nicho, análisis de grupo y estacionalidad. En años recientes la literatura y el interés por la ecología de ésta fauna se ha incrementado substancialmente, abarcando infinidad de localidades así como diversidad de ambientes.…”
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