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Larval-to-adult viability was measured for three strains of Drosophila melanogaster: a wild strain and two eye colour mutant strains (cardinal and sepia) starting from seventy different genotypic compositions. Analyses of a sub-set of the data (not considering all genotypic frequencies) demonstrate frequency-dependence in the three strains. These results suggest that in this experiment, frequency-dependent selection may be masked by other selective forces, only being apparent when specific analyses are carried out.
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Adell, J.C., Molina, V., Castro, J.A. et al. Unmasking frequency-dependent selection in tri-cultures of Drosophila melanogaster . Genetica 79, 77–83 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00057924
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