Article
Phenotype-dependent habitat choice is too weak to cause assortative mating between Drosophila melanogaster strains differing in light sensitivity.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Peralta-Rincón Juan Ramón, Aoulad Fatima Zohra, Prado Antonio, Edelaar Pim
Abstract excerpt
Matching habitat choice is gaining attention as a mechanism for maintaining biodiversity and driving speciation. It revolves around the idea that individuals select the habitat in which they perceive to obtain greater fitness based on a prior evaluation of their local performance across heterogeneous environments. This results in individuals with similar ecologically relevant traits converging to the same...
Topics
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Choice Behavior
- Drosophila Proteins
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Drosophila simulans
- Ecosystem
- Eye Color
- Female
- Light
- Male
- Mating Preference, Animal
- Mutation
- Phenotype