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Heritable variation in fitness is the fuel of adaptive evolution, and sex can generate new adaptive combinations of alleles. If the generation of beneficial combinations drives the evolution of recombination, then the level of recombination should result in changes in the response to selection. Three types of lines of Drosophila melanogaster varying in their level of genetic recombination were selected over 38 generations for geotaxis. The within-chromosome recombination level of these lines was controlled for 60% of the genome: chromosome X and chromosome II. The full recombination lines had normal, unmanipulated levels of recombination on these two chromosomes. Conversely, nonrecombination lines had recombination effectively eliminated within the X and second chromosomes. Finally, partial recombination lines had the effective rate of within-chromosome recombination lowered to 10% of natural levels for these two chromosomes. The rate of response to selection was measured for continuous negative geotaxis and for a fluctuating environment (alternating selection for negative and positive geotaxis). All selected Drosophila lines responded to selection and approximately 36% of the response to selection was because of the X and second chromosomes. However, recombination did not accelerate adaptation during either directional or fluctuating selection for geotaxis.

Genetic recombination and adaptation to fluctuating environments: selection for geotaxis in Drosophila melanogaster