Norms of reaction and diversifying selection |
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Authors: | Bruce Wallace |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 24061 Blacksburg, VA, USA |
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Abstract: | The numbers of progeny produced by comparable numbers of female Drosophila melanogaster of 26 geographic strains on nine different culture media are examined in the context of norms of reaction. Having emphasized that diversifying selection is seldom discussed simultaneously with its seemingly related topic, norms of reaction, I present the following argument: diversifying selection has generally been viewed as involving sub-populations inhabiting separate localities and subject to different patterns of selection, norms of reaction as variation whose weighted average determines the relative fitnesses of different genotypes within individual sub-populations. Should environmental challenges frequently involve life or death (including sterility) outcomes, norms of reaction involving components of fitness engender diversifying selection within local populations (demes). |
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Keywords: | Norms of reaction diversifying selection Drosophila melanogaster |
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