Report on a Behavioural Selection Experiment
- 1 October 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 23 (2), 625-626
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1968.23.2.625
Abstract
The results from the second phase of a behavioural selection experiment designed to produce active and inactive strains of Drosophila are reported. Data show marked phenotypic differences have been produced as a result of the selection. Relaxing selection after 94 generations did not result in experimental populations drifting back to the control level; thus considerable inbreeding has taken place.Keywords
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- Locomotor activity in Drosophila. II. Selection for active and inactive strainsAnimal Behaviour, 1966