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Drosophila are repelled by certain odours; the repulsion from medium containing peppermint oil shown by adult flies can be converted into an attraction towards such food by exposing the individuals as larvæ or adults to the odour1. It might therefore be expected in a population exposed to two or more odours, for example, food plants, that part of the population could become specifically adapted to one and part to the alternative odour. Disruptive selection of this type could well give rise to polymorphism2 or even biological races, and the work reported here was part of an attempt3 to produce divergence within populations by such means, though Thoday4 and others have already demonstrated experimentally the production of polymorphism as an outcome of artificial disruptive selection.
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CLUTTERBUCK, A., BEARDMORE, J. Variation in the Behaviour of Different Genotypes of Drosophila towards Odoriferous Vegetable Oils. Nature 190, 1135–1136 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1901135a0
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