Enzyme null alleles in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster: Frequencies in a North Carolina population.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·Vol. 77 ·No. 2 ·1980-02-00 ·Pages 1091-5

Voelker RA, Langley CH, Brown AJ, Ohnishi S, Dickson B, Montgomery E, Smith SC

Abstract

A Raleigh, NC, population of Drosophila melanogaster was sampled for the presence of enzyme null alleles at 25 loci. No nulls were found at any of five X-linked loci. Nulls were recovered at 13 of 20 autosomal loci; the weighted mean frequency for all 20 autosomal loci was estimated to be 0.0025. A consideration of the effects of these null alleles on viability strongly suggests that, although they may contribute to so-called polygenic variation, they are not representative of the entire genome.

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Voelker R A

Laboratory of Animal Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.

Langley C H

Brown A J

Ohnishi S

Dickson B

Montgomery E

Smith S C

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Article Info

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Abbr.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

ISSN

0027-8424

DOI

10.1073/pnas.77.2.1091

Published

1980-02-00

Pages

1091-5

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

7505876

PMCID

PMC348430

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