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1 May 2002 GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION FOR WING SHAPE IN DROSOPHILA SERRATA
Ary A. Hoffmann, Jennifer Shirriffs
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Geographic variation in wing shape in female Drosophila serrata was examined by characterizing isofemale strains from 19 localities collected along a transect on the eastern coast of Australia. Shape variation was analyzed by Procrustes superimposition of landmark data followed by canonical variate analysis. The first extracted canonical variate showed a nonlinear association with latitude and accounted for 43% of the variance. There was a sharp increase in this variate at low latitudes as well as a gradual increase at high latitudes. These shape changes were associated with two landmarks at the edge of the wing. There was also a linear change in wing aspect. The isofemale heritability for two measures of shape was around 30%. Allometric relationships were weak both between localities and among isofemale strains within localities. The possibility that wing shape parameters are under selection independent of wing size is discussed.

Corresponding Editor: T. Kawecki

Ary A. Hoffmann and Jennifer Shirriffs "GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION FOR WING SHAPE IN DROSOPHILA SERRATA," Evolution 56(5), 1068-1073, (1 May 2002). https://doi.org/10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[1068:GVFWSI]2.0.CO;2
Received: 19 November 2001; Accepted: 1 February 2002; Published: 1 May 2002
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KEYWORDS
cline
Drosophila serrata
geographic variation
morphology
shape
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