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A genetic analysis of phototactic behavior inDrosophila melanogaster. II. Hybridization of divergent populations

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Artificial selection has produced populations ofDrosophila melanogaster which show either positive or negative phototactic behavior. Selection was carried out in the presence of various marked multiple inversions used to suppress genetic recombination. Reciprocal hybridizations between photopositive and photonegative populations of flies have revealed the X chromosome ofD. melanogaster to be important in phototactic behavior regardless of conditions which restricted genetic recombination during selection.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

    Therese Ann Markow

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This investigation was supported by NIH Training Grant GM-01433.

This work forms part of a dissertation submitted to the faculty of Arizona State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree.

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Markow, T.A. A genetic analysis of phototactic behavior inDrosophila melanogaster. II. Hybridization of divergent populations. Behav Genet 5, 339–350 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01073204

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