Sex combs are important for male mating success in Drosophila melanogaster

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-201

  Ng, Chen Siang ^a   Kopp, Artyom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship; Drosophila; Female choice; Sex comb; Sexual dimorphism; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT GENETICS; LEG; MALE; MATING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONCOGENE; PLESIOMORPHY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES; SRY GENE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; MALE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 40049103582     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-008-9190-7     Document Type: Article

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