Article
Genotype and anesthetic determine mate choice in Drosophila melanogaster.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 1990
Joachim D, Curtsinger J W
Abstract excerpt
Genetic differences that influence mating preferences were studied in genetically defined lines of Drosophila melanogaster. Initial results suggested substantial differences between two types of females with respect to the types of male preferred as mates, but further experimentation showed that the mating patterns were conditional on the mode of anesthesia (CO2 versus ether). In a statistical test of...
Topics
- Animals
- Carbon Dioxide
- Copulation
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Ether
- Ethyl Ethers
- Female
- Genotype
- Male
- Sexual Behavior, Animal