• DOI:10.1086/284445
Corpus ID: 84819968

An Experiment Testing Two Hypotheses of Speciation

@article{Ringo1985AnET,
  title={An Experiment Testing Two Hypotheses of Speciation},
  author={J. Ringo and D. Wood and R. Rockwell and H. Dowse},
  journal={The American Naturalist},
  year={1985},
  volume={126},
  pages={642 - 661}
}

• J. Ringo, D. Wood, +1 author H. Dowse
• Published 1985
• Biology
• The American Naturalist

We initiated 17 laboratory populations of Drosophila simulans: a heterogeneous, chromosomally monomorphic base population (BASE) from which the other 16 were derived; four pairs of selection lines, each pair of which was selected for three different traits in three successive years; and eight genetic-drift lines, each of which experienced six flush-crash cycles after an initial founder event. Every 6 mo for 3 yr we performed tests for reproductive isolation among the selection lines and BASE… Expand

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