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Male mating success and fertility in Drosophila melanogaster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Linda Partridge ,
Trudy F. C. Mackay  and
Susan Aitken
Linda Partridge
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JN
Trudy F. C. Mackay
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JN
Susan Aitken
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JN

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The male mating ability and male fertility of 40 third chromosome homozygote lines has been measured. There was significant between-line differentiation for both characters, and comparison with a heterozygous stock indicated inbreeding depression and hence dominance variation for them. The characters showed significant positive correlation both with each other and with other fitness components and total fitness, as measured by Mackay (1985). This pattern of large positive correlations between fitness components is not expected to occur in outbred populations.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , December 1985 , pp. 279 - 285
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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