Open AccessMating behaviour as a fitness component involved in maintaining allozyme polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster
Author(s) -
åSLUND SVENERIC,
RASMUSON MARIANNE
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
hereditas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1601-5223
pISSN - 0018-0661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1978.tb00977.x
Subject(s) - biology , drosophila melanogaster , fertility , mating , genotype , genetics , phenotype , esterase , evolutionary biology , zoology , gene , enzyme , population , biochemistry , demography , sociology
The components of phenotypic variation for mating activity, fertility and egg‐adult viability were estimated in the leucine aminopeptidase‐A and esterase‐6 allozyme systems in Drosophila melanogaster. It was shown that variation among separate genotypes of these enzyme systems contributed considerably to the total phenotypic variation. For mating activity and fertility, 24% and 12% respectively of the total phenotypic variation was attributed to differences among allozyme genotypes, whereas for viability this component only amounted to 4%.