On the Relative Role of Mutation and Recombination in Responses to Selection for Polygenic Traits in Irradiated Populations of D. Melanogaster
- 1 January 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine
- Vol. 1 (1), 61-69
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09553005914550091
Abstract
(1) X-ray treatments are a very efficient tool for inducing polygenic mutation and therefore additive genetic variability for polygenic traits in Drosophila. (2) Artificial selection can make use of the new genetic variability. (3) X-ray-induced increase in recombination rates does not seem to be an important factor in determining the observed effects, at least in the described experiments.Keywords
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