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Fertility interactions in Drosophila : Theoretical model and experimental tests
Author(s) -
Moya Andrés,
Ayala Francisco J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of evolutionary biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.289
H-Index - 128
eISSN - 1420-9101
pISSN - 1010-061X
DOI - 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1989.2010001.x
Subject(s) - fertility , biology , mating , evolutionary biology , selection (genetic algorithm) , drosophila (subgenus) , statistical physics , genetics , population , physics , demography , artificial intelligence , sociology , computer science , gene
The results of 11 experiments with Drosophila species show that fertility is not a reducible property: the fertility of a mating pair cannot be predicted from the average fertility of the two genotypes involved. We propose a model of fertility selection that does not assume additivity (or multiplicativity) but assumes random mating and that the genotypic frequencies are in Hardy‐Weinberg equilibrium. Numerical simulations show that removal of the assumption of Hardy‐Weinberg frequencies does not significantly change the equilibrium frequencies predicted by the model.