Inheritance of behavioural differences between two interfertile, sympatric species, Drosophila silvestris and D. heteroneura.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2540.1998.00317.x

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Inheritance of behavioural differences between two interfertile, sympatric species, Drosophila silvestris and D. heteroneura.

Heredity - 1 May 1998

Boake C R, Price D K, Andreadis D K

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The Hawaiian fly species, Drosophila silvestris and D. heteroneura, are sympatric and interfertile but show strong behavioural isolation and major differences in male aggressive behaviour and the associated morphology. As a first step in elucidating the genetic control of the differences between...

Topics

Aggression
Animals
Copulation
Crosses, Genetic
Drosophila
Female
Fertility
Genetic Variation
Male
Sexual Behavior, Animal
Species Specificity

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