Complex inheritance of male courtship song characters in Drosophila virilis.

doi:10.1023/a:1021095331850

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Complex inheritance of male courtship song characters in Drosophila virilis.

Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 2003

Huttunen Susanna, Aspi Jouni

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We analyzed the inheritance of two male courtship song characters, number of pulses in a pulse train, and length of a pulse train in Drosophila virilis. Biometric analyses of song differences among 16 crosses over three generations (parental and reciprocal F1, F2, and backcrosses) were performed using two different approaches. The joint scaling test revealed significant additive and dominance components, and also...

Topics

Animal Communication
Animals
Courtship
Crosses, Genetic
Drosophila
Epistasis, Genetic
Female
Hybridization, Genetic
Inbreeding
Male
Oscillometry
Phenotype
Sexual Behavior, Animal
Species Specificity
Vocalization, Animal
Y Chromosome

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PMID: 12645818
DOI: 10.1023/a:1021095331850

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