Genetic Analysis of Natural Populations of DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER in Japan. IV. Natural Selection on the Inducibility, but Not on the Structural Genes, of Amylase Loci
AUTOR(ES)
Matsuo, Yoshinori
RESUMO
To test the validity of previous results the inducibility of amylase as well as other biochemical parameters was measured using 45 homozygous strains of Drosophila melanogaster from Akayu, Japan. Only the inducibility (but not protein contents or specific activity of the enzyme) was highly correlated with productivity measured using a starch food regime (rp = 0.41, P < 0.005, rg = 0.73 ± 0.21). Inducibility was also negatively correlated with developmental time using starch food; namely, the one with high inducibility developed the fastest. Population cage experiments using 1600 genomes from the same natural population showed that the inducibility responded positively to natural selection (1.6-fold increase in inducibility in cages using starch food relative to those using normal food), but little frequency change of allozymes was observed. All of these results were consistent and indicated that polymorphisms of inducing factors or regulatory genes were major determinants of fitness differences in a particular environment and may be the genetic materials responsible for the adaptive evolution of organisms, at least in amylase loci.
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