No Evidence for Heritability of Male Mating Latency or Copulation Duration across Social Environments in Drosophila melanogaster

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Taylor, Michelle L ^a   Evans, Jonathan P ^b   Garcia Gonzalez, Francisco ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; COVARIANCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIATION; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885403901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077347     Document Type: Article

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