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Testing for rare male mating advantages among various Drosophila melanogaster genotypes1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

T. A. Markow ,
R. C. Richmond ,
L. Mueller ,
I. Sheer ,
S. Roman ,
C. Laetz  and
L. Lorenz
T. A. Markow*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA 85281
R. C. Richmond
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401USA
L. Mueller
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA 85281
I. Sheer
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA 85281
S. Roman
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA 85281
C. Laetz
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA 85281
L. Lorenz
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA 85281
*
3 To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Experiments were conducted to look for minority male mating advantages among several Drosophila melanogaster genotypes. The strains of flies used were Canton-S, Oregon-R, a strain carrying the recessive mutation vermilion, and highly geo-positive and geo-negative populations which had been selected for over 200 generations in Hirsch-geotaxis mazes. Two series of experiments were carried out, one series using ten pairs of flies, and another series using 20 pairs. Regression analysis gave one significant slope out of seven, suggesting that in the present study, frequency-dependent advantages are not as common or as strong as reported for D. pseudoobscura.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 1980 , pp. 59 - 64
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

Footnotes

1

Supported by NIH grant GM 19583 and NIMH 30382 to T.A.M. and NSF grant DEB 77-14994 to R.C.R.

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