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Mating competition in artificial populations of Drosophila melanogaster polymorphic for ebony: II. A test for minority male mating advantage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Leif Søndergaard
Leif Søndergaard
Affiliation:
Institute of Genetics, University of Copenhagen Øster Farimagsgade 2A, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark

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Mating competition experiments with D. melanogaster were performed in light and darkness under conditions mimicking those under which artificial populations show a stable polymorphism for the ebony gene (e). In both light and darkness a minority male mating advantage was found for e/ + males in competition with wild-type males, but in light only when ebony was in the majority. Homozygous wild-type males showed minority advantage only in light and ebony males only in darkness.

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Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , June 1986 , pp. 205 - 208
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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