Title: | The effect of immigration on genetic control : A laboratory study with wild and compound chromosome stocks of Drosophila melanogaster |
Address: | "Department of Genetics and Human Variation, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 0040-5752 (Print) 0040-5752 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Immigration by wild type flies into an established compound chromosome control zone was studied in the laboratory using discrete generation population cages. Immigration rates of less than 10 % per generation by virgin migrants were unlikely to disrupt the zone. However, the zone could be disrupted by immigration rates of 0.5 % if the migrants had mated. The curvilinear relationship between the number of generations to fixation of the migrant genotype and the immigration rate suggested a possible equilibrium between immigration rate and the maintenance of a control zone. -The importance of the results to the strategy of a particular control program is emphasized, as is the need for an integrated multi-disciplinary approach to insect pest management" |
Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEMcKenzie, J A eng Germany 1977/03/01 Theor Appl Genet. 1977 Mar; 49(2):79-83. doi: 10.1007/BF00275166" |