Date of Award:
5-1-1961
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Biology
Department name when degree awarded
Zoology
Committee Chair(s)
Eldon J. Gardner
Committee
Eldon J. Gardner
Committee
Datus M. Hammond
Committee
William S. Boyle
Abstract
The tumorous head trait first appeared in a stock of flies maintained at the University of Texas which had previously been collected at Ocahuizolta, Mexico. The tumorous head trait is evidently deleterious to the individual expressing it so it was not evident if the trait would continue to be expressed if it was not selected for. Later investigations indicated that alleles of the tumorous head trait were uniformly absent in some and present in other "wild" laboratory stocks. Different alleles had varying effects on the percentage of expression of the trait. It was not known why alleles of the trait which have no phenotypic effects are maintained in some natural populations.
Recommended Citation
Berseth, William D., "The Behavior of Certain Genes Associated With Tumorous Head in Laboratory Populations of Drosophila melanogaster" (1961). Biology. 293.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd_biology/293
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