Pleiotropic Effects on Fitness of Mutations Affecting Viability in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

AUTOR(ES)

Simmons, Michael J.

RESUMO

The relative viabilities and fitnesses of wild-type second chromosomes in heterozygous condition were determined. Joint analysis of these permitted an estimation of a parameter that relates the viability effect of a mutation to its effect on fitness as a whole. For newly arisen mutations, the estimate was slightly greater than one, indicating that the reductions in viability caused by these mutations are associated with reductions in other components of fitness. For mutations from an equilibrium population, the estimate of the parameter was near zero, implying that the deleterious viability effects of these mutations are compensated by improvements in other aspects of fitness.

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