An Experimental Approach to the Study of Multiple Peak Epistasis in Drosophila Melanogaster

Abstract

In an attempt to demonstrate an existence of multiple peak epistasis in scutellar bristles of D. melanogaster, mass selection on total number of scutellar bristles was practised in 1 large and 10 small lines in each of three crosses, Fl and two backcrosses, between the two unrelated isogenic lines, Oregon-R and Sevelen.