Sexual behavior in laboratory strains of Drosophila mercatorum that have spontaneously adopted parthenogenesis.

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Sexual behavior in laboratory strains of Drosophila mercatorum that have spontaneously adopted parthenogenesis.

Behavior genetics - 1 May 1991

Takenaka-Dacanay J H, Carson H L

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Three instances are described in which bisexual laboratory strains spontaneously adopted an exclusively parthenogenetic mode of reproduction, even in the presence of fertile, bisexual males. The few males produced by the parthenogenetic strains lack a Y chromosome and are sterile but, nevertheles...

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Animals
Copulation
Drosophila
Female
Male
Parthenogenesis
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic
Sexual Behavior, Animal

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