Genetic variation and covariation in male attractiveness and female mating preferences in drosophila melanogaster

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-88

  Ratterman, Nicholas L ^a   Rosenthal, Gil G ^a,b   Carney, Ginger E ^a   Jones, Adam G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas de Las Huastecas Aguazarca 16 de Septiembre   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Correlation; Drosophila; Function; Genetic; Mate choice; Preference; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

DROSOPHILA; GENETIC CORRELATION; MATE CHOICE; PREFERENCE FUNCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84892734255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.007468     Document Type: Article

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