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Inversion Polymorphism in Island Species of Drosophila

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Evolutionary Biology

Part of the book series: Evolutionary Biology ((EBIO,volume 26))

Abstract

Chromosomal mutations, such as inversions, are major, observable changes in the Drosophila genome, and therefore have been extensively and intensively studied for many years (Bush et al.,1977; Carson and Yoon, 1982; Dobzhansky, 1970; Sperlich and Pfriem, 1986; Wasserman, 1982a,b). The factors involved in their origin, survival in the heterozygous condition, and fixation must be almost as diverse as the species in which they occur. Moreover, those elements that tend to promote polymorphism are almost certainly antagonistic to those that lead to the fixation of these mutations. It should not be surprising, then, to find that there is no single evolutionary mechanism that can fully explain the chromosomal variability found in nature.

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    Florence Wasserman

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Wasserman, M., Wasserman, F. (1992). Inversion Polymorphism in Island Species of Drosophila . In: Hecht, M.K., Wallace, B., Macintyre, R.J. (eds) Evolutionary Biology. Evolutionary Biology, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3336-8_9

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