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COURTSHIP AND MATING SOUNDS IN SPECIES OF THE DROSOPHILA AFFINIS SUBGROUP
- Source :
- Evolution; international journal of organic evolution. 32(3)
- Publication Year :
- 1977
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Abstract
- Evidence has accumulated that sounds produced by courting Drosophilas serve for recognition and acceptance in mating, and interspecific differences of such sounds may be important for reproductive isolation (e.g. Ewing and Bennet-Clark, 1968). It has been shown (Miller, Goldstein, and Patty, 1975) that the widespread North American species Drosophila athabasca consists of three semispecies with different courtship sounds. We now report an investigation of sounds related to courtship and mating in five other sibling species of the D. affinis subgroup: affinis, algonquin, azteca, narragansett, and tolteca. Additional observations of such sounds were also made on the three athabasca semispecies and on hybrids between semispecies "eastern B" and D. azteca.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Drosophila affinis
biology
Ecology
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Zoology
Interspecific competition
Reproductive isolation
biology.organism_classification
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Drosophila athabasca
Azteca
Courtship
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
Sibling species
Genetics
Mating
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15585646
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....941c06a0235554179805253a33b2a7ec