Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

No evidence of mitochondrial genetic variation for sperm competition within a population of Drosophila melanogaster.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Nov 2008

Friberg U, Dowling D K

Abstract excerpt

Recent studies have advocated a role for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in sperm competition. This is controversial because earlier theory and empirical work suggested that mitochondrial genetic variation for fitness is low. Yet, such studies dealt only with females and did not consider that variation that is neutral when expressed in females, might be non-neutral in males as, in most species, mtDNA is never selected...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Breeding
Share to DNA, Mitochondrial
Share to Drosophila melanogaster

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Genetic Variation

Share to Genetics, Population

Share to Spermatozoa

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 18643860
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01581.x

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-07.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

No evidence of mitochondrial genetic variation for sperm competition within a population of Drosophila melanogaster.PMID 18643860Read ↗

Effects of cytoplasmic genes on sperm viability and sperm morphology in a seed beetle: implications for sperm competition theory?Semantic proximity Read ↗

Mitochondrial genetic effects on reproductive success: signatures of positive intrasexual, but negative intersexual pleiotropy.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Sexually antagonistic cytonuclear fitness interactions in Drosophila melanogaster.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Mitochondrial DNA variants in Drosophila melanogaster are expressed at the level of the organismal phenotype.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Can paternal leakage maintain sexually antagonistic polymorphism in the cytoplasm?Semantic proximity Read ↗

Intergenomic epistasis for fitness: within-population interactions between cytoplasmic and nuclear genes in Drosophila melanogaster.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Mixed evidence for intralocus sexual conflict from male-limited selection in Drosophila melanogaster.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Population genetics of the cytoplasm and the units of selection on mitochondrial DNA in Drosophila melanogaster.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Reversing mother's curse: selection on male mitochondrial fitness effects.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Cytonuclear interactions and the economics of mating in seed beetles.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Extensive paternal mtDNA leakage in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Within-population variation in cytoplasmic genes affects female life span and aging in Drosophila melanogaster.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.