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Differences in the genetic determination of egg laying under three different conditions (in a suitable medium, in a non-suitable one and egg laying by virgin females) were studied through chromosome assay in two pairs of inbred lines. Egg laying of inseminated females on the suitable medium showed directional dominance and interchromosomal interactions, as expected for a trait related to fitness. Egg laying on the suitable and the non-suitable media are related, as suggested by the correspondence of some genetical effects. The difference between the egg laying in the two situations, which could be seen as a measure of retention, was affected by additive and heterotic effects. A chromosome mediating higher egg output than its holologue on the suitable medium can mediate a lower egg output on the non-suitable one. This shows that genotype x environment interaction cannot be due only to proportionate effects of all the relevant genes, but that different genes are acting in the two situations. The genetical effects on egg laying of virgin females were very different of those in the other two situations. This is an essentially additive trait, which suggests that it is not related to fitness.
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Albornoz, J., DomÃnguez, A., Alcorta, E. et al. Chromosomal effects in egg laying of Drosophila melanogaster under different conditions. Heredity 58, 457–462 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1987.75
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