What is Wild type?
'''Wild type''' is a term in [[genetics]] for the most common type in a natural [[population]]. It is applied to [[allele]]s of a [[gene]], or the [[genotype]]s or [[phenotype]]s of a [[species]]. The term is used in genetics to contrast normal alleles with [[Mutation|mutant]] alleles.<ref>Futuyma D.J. ''Evolution''. Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts. p556</ref> With ''[[Drosophila melanogaster]]'', wild type usually means the standard version of the famous laboratory population used in the [[T.H. Morgan]] laboratory, and since used around the world. This was, of course, only a small [[Sample (statistics)|sample]] of the natural populations. Actually, we propbably know more about ''[[Drosophila pseudoobscura]]'' in the wild than ''Drosophila melanogaster'', because of a huge series of studies done by [[Theodosius Dobzhansky]] and his colleagues after [[World War II]].<ref>Lewontin R.C; Moore J.A; Provine W.B. & Wallace B. 2003. Dobzhansky's ''Genetics of natural populations'', I{{ndash}}XLIII. New York: Columbia University Press.</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Classical genetics]]