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Larval competition experiments involving two wild type and eight mutant strains of Drosophila melanogaster have been carried out following the substitution procedure proposed by Mather and Caligari (1981). Our main goal has been to compare the competitive abilities of two phenotypically indistinguishable strains (wild and Oregon-R) by means of their responses with eight different mutants. Prior to the analyses of viability data, we have studied the normalizing effect of several transformations in order to determine which was best suited for the analyses. The differences found among the five transformations tested and the untransformed data were not very great. The folded power transformation (Mosteller and Tukey, 1977) was finally chosen.
No constant pattern in the responses of the two wild type strains to the mutant competitors was detected. This leads us to conclude that the nature of the competition between the two wild type strains cannot be predicted from a knowledge of their competition with other strains.
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Adell, J., Moya, A., Molina, V. et al. On the analysis of viability data: an example with Drosophila. Heredity 65, 39–46 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1990.67
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