Article
Hemiclonal analysis of interacting phenotypes in male and female Drosophila melanogaster.
BMC evolutionary biology - 3 May 2014
Tennant Hannah M E, Sonser Erin E, Long Tristan A f
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Identifying the sources of variation in mating interactions between males and females is important because this variation influences the strength and/or the direction of sexual selection that populations experience. While the origins and effects of variation in male attractiveness and ornamentation have received much scrutiny, the causes and consequences of intraspecific variation in females have been...
Topics
- Animals
- Copulation
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Female
- Fertility
- Genetic Variation
- Male
- Mating Preference, Animal
- Ovum
- Phenotype
- Reproduction
- Sexual Behavior, Animal
