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Mating behavior as an indicator of quality of Drosophila subobscura males?
Insect science - 1 Feb 2017
Savic Veselinovic Marija, Pavkovic-Lucic Sofija, Kurbalija Novicic Zorana, Jelic Mihailo, Stamenkovic-Radak Marina, Andjelkovic Marko
Abstract excerpt
According to current theoretical predictions, any deleterious mutations that reduce nonsexual fitness may have a negative influence on mating success. This means that sexual selection may remove deleterious mutations from the populations. Males of good genetic quality should be more successful in mating, compared to the males of lower genetic quality. As mating success is a condition dependent trait, large...
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