TY - JOUR
AU - Buri, Peter
AB - GENE FREQUENCY IN SMALL POPULATIONS OF MUTANT DROSOPHILA 1 PETER BURr State University of Iowa Received April 17, 1956 INTRODUCTIOX small cultures in which the size of the breeding population is controlled. Each Studies of gene frequency changes in initial culture founds a line in which each laboratory populations have for the most successive generation is inititated with a part been concerned with the systematic random sample of uniform size taken from effects of selection and with discovery of among the flies of the preceding genera­ the nature of the selective differences in­ tion. The form is that of a fairly large volved between genetic alternatives. The experimental population divided int~ a classical experiments of L'Heritier and number of very small completely ISO­ Teissier (1934, 1937) with common mu­ lated subunits. tants, the later work of Dobzhansky The present study was inte~ded to p~o­ (Wright and Dobzhansky 1946), and t?at vide information on the relative selective of Wallace (1948) on naturally occurnng values of two mutant autosomal alleles genetic variants are examples of ~uch and their several zygotic types under studies applied to rather large populations several different experimental conditions maintained in population cages of the sort and to 
TI - GENE FREQUENCY IN SMALL POPULATIONS OF MUTANT DROSOPHILA
JF - Evolution
DO - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1956.tb02864.x
DA - 1956-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/gene-frequency-in-small-populations-of-mutant-drosophila-AHhLUJNnt8
SP - 367
EP - 402
VL - 10
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -