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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-2-19
pubmed:abstractText
Selection for "fast" preadult development rate among the progeny of flies collected in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster produced a line that developed more rapidly than a line selected for "slow" preadult development rate. Assays for enzyme activity levels showed that the activities of alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, alcohol dehydrogenase, and malic enzyme were higher in the fast than in the slow line, but that the activity of superoxide dismutase was lower in the fast line. Differences in the frequencies of spacer-length phenotypes of X chromosome-linked rRNA genes (rDNA), which developed between the lines during the selection process, are larger than can be explained on the basis of genetic drift alone. Long rDNA spacers had high frequency in the fast line; short spacers, in the slow line. We conclude that enzyme levels affected adaptation under the selective regimes imposed and that the different X-linked rDNA spacer-length phenotypes are either adaptive in themselves or that they mark chromosomal segments carrying genes relevant to adaptation.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
84
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
610-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Correlations between development rates, enzyme activities, ribosomal DNA spacer-length phenotypes, and adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.