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Relative effects of female fecundity and male mating success on fertility selection in Drosophila pseudoobscura.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Apr 1996
Brockett M M, Alavi H, Anderson W W
Abstract excerpt
The fertility component of natural selection acting on chromosomal inversions in two experimental populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura was subdivided into the effects of female fecundity and male mating success. The offspring of the three female genotypes could be distinguished by their mitochondrial DNA haplotypes, thus permitting a direct measurement of the relative fecundities of the female genotype. The...
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