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Studies of chromosomal polymorphism in natural populations of D. guaramunu and D. griseolineata in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, confirmed and extended previous findings in these species. The more common D. guaramunu is much more polymorphic than its closest but less common relative D. griseolineata. In the former species, the frequencies of four inversions showed differences from locality to locality, and five inversions of the same species showed temporal changes in the population of Bexiga. It was not possible to correlate the differences with any particular factor in the environment, though the temporal changes were perhaps due to seasonal climatic cycles.
Inversion heterosis was not evident in either species — instead, inversion Ee of D. guaramunu was found to be less frequent than expected on the basis of the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in the localities of Emboaba, Bexiga and Feliz. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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Salzano, F.M. Chromosomal polymorphism in two species of the guarani group of drosophila. Chromosoma 7, 39–50 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329718
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329718