Reproductive characteristics of the flower breeding Drosophila hibisci bock (Drosophilidae) in eastern Australia: Genetic and environmental determinants of ovariole number

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 806-815

  Starmer, William T ^a   Polak, Michal ^a   Wolf, Larry L ^a   Barker, J S F ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drosophila hibisci; Ecological genetics; Epistasis; Genotype by environment interactions; Hibiscus; Latitudinal cline; Line cross analysis; Maternal effects; Ovariole number

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BACKCROSSING; DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIBISCUS; OVARIOLE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRUITFLY; GENETIC FACTOR; OVARIOLE; REPRODUTCTIVE BIOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA HIBISCI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; HIBISCUS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031879417     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb03704.x     Document Type: Article

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