TY - JOUR AU - Stalker, Harrison D. AB - EVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EVOLUTION SEPTEMBER, 1947 No.3 Vol. I GENE ARRANGEMENTS IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA ROBUSTA STURTEVANT HAMPTON L. CARSON AND HARRISON D. STALKER Wasliinoton University St. LOllis, Missouri Received May 12, 1947 INTRODUCTION which have been relatively unaffected by human activities. The salivary gland method for the de­ The present paper is designed to set tection of natural chromosome variability down the fundamental facts concerning in the genus Drosophila and other Diptera the nature and distribution of the gene is of great value in the study of the struc­ arrangements in Drosophila robusta ture and changes of natural populations. Sturtevant preparatory to further more that the method This is especially true in intensive studies of the dynamics of gene permits, in some cases, the application of arrangements in local populations. Fur­ quantitative methods to the problems at thermore, a correlated study of the mor­ hand. Recent penetrating explorations of phology the species from different parts the micro- and macro-structure of natural of its range has revealed the presence of populations in this manner (e.g., Dob­ morphological clines from north to south zhansky, 1944; Dubinin and Tiniakov, TI - GENE ARRANGEMENTS IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA ROBUSTA STURTEVANT JF - Evolution DO - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1947.tb01331.x DA - 1947-09-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/gene-arrangements-in-natural-populations-of-drosophila-robusta-5AAQBfJ9PZ SP - 113 EP - 133 VL - 1 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -