Hemiclonal analysis of interacting phenotypes in male and female Drosophila melanogaster.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying the sources of variation in mating interactions between males and females is important because this variation influences the strength and/or the direction of sexual selection that populations experience. While the origins and effects of variation in male attractiveness and ornamentation have received much scrutiny, the causes and consequences of intraspecific variation in females have been relatively overlooked. We used cytogenetic cloning techniques developed for Drosophila melanogaster to create "hemiclonal" males and females with whom we directly observed sexual interaction between individuals of different known genetic backgrounds and measured subsequent reproductive outcomes. Using this approach, we were able to quantify the genetic contribution of each

SUBMITTER: Tennant HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4101844 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature