Adaptation to experimental alterations of the operational sex ratio in populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 401-412

  Reuter, Max ^a   Linklater, Jon R ^a   Lehmann, Laurent ^b   Fowler, Kevin ^a   Chapman, Tracey ^a,c   Hurst, Greg D D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic drift; Meiotic drive; Sex ratio distortion; Sexual conflict; Sperm competition; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC DRIFT; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SPERM COMPETITION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FORELIMB; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS; MALE; MEIOSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; ORGAN SIZE; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTIS; WING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 39749136594     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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