ADH allele frequency changes in olive fruit flies shift from olives to artificial larval food and vice versa, effect of temperature
1986
Economopoulos, A.P. | Loukas, M.
When field collected olive fruit flies, Dacus oleae Gmelin (Diptera: Tephritidae), were maintained on an artificial larval medium or on ripe (black) olives in the laboratory for four consecutive generations, the frequency of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) allozymes changed (impressively) only in the flies kept on artifical larval food. When flies reared in the laboratory for about 2 years (allele frequencies of artificially reared flies in equilibrium) were provided ripe olives for oviposition for three consecutive generations, the ADH allozyme frequencies changed substantially within only one generation, remaining stable thereafter. The change was towards the frequency levels of natural populations of flies. Finally, when field collected flies were reared artificially under three different daily temperature regimes (i.e. 17, 17-25 and 25 °C), the general pattern of ADH allozyme frequency changes was not affected by the different temperature regimes. The only difference was that the stable temperatures, especially the high one, exhibited more rapid changes of allele frequencies than the daily fluctuating temperature regime.
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