Inbreeding reveals mode of past selection on male reproductive characters in Drosophila melanogaster

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2089-2102

  Ala Honkola, Outi ^a,b   Hosken, David J ^c   Manier, Mollie K ^a   Lüpold, Stefan ^a   Droge Young, Elizabeth M ^a   Berben, Kirstin S ^a   Collins, William F ^a   Belote, John M ^a   Pitnick, Scott ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Drosophila melanogaster; Inbreeding depression; Past selection; Sperm competition; Sperm length

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84886261303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.625     Document Type: Article

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