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The incidence of flies with more than four seutellar chaetae (additional chaetae) has been followed for up to 3 years in 4 lines at 15°C, 20°C, 25°C and 27.5°C derived from each of 3 strains, initially set up from single inseminated females of Drosophila melanogaster, collected in the wild single the same locality at the same time. Within each set of temperature lines, the incidence of additional chaetae was highest in one strain, intermediate in another strain, and lowest in the third. This shows that the differences between lines can be at least partly attributed to differences between the founder females of the three strains, although some divergence occurred between lines within strains in some cases. With respect to quantitative traits, the results indicate that in situations where new habitats are occupied by a small number of colonists, the nature of the founder female is possibly of greater importance than the different environments of the new habitats.
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Some of this work was supported by the Australian Research Grants Committee.
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Hosgood, S.M.W., Parsons, P.A. Genetic heterogeneity among the founders of laboratory populations of Drosophila IV. Scutellar chaetae in different environments. Genetica 42, 42–52 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154838
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