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Female nutritional status determines the magnitude and sign of responses to a male ejaculate signal in Drosophila melanogaster.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Jan 2010
Fricke C, Bretman A, Chapman T
Abstract excerpt
Ejaculate chemicals transferred from males to females during mating cause significant changes in female behaviour and physiology, but the causes of phenotypic variation in these responses is little understood. We tested here the effect of adult female nutrition on the response of female Drosophila melanogaster to a specific ejaculate component, the sex peptide (SP), which is of interest because of its effects on...
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