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ToolsWigby, S and Chapman, T (2006) No evidence that experimental manipulation of sexual conflict drives pre-mating reproductive isolation in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 19 (4). pp. 1033-1039. ISSN 1010-061X
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Theoretical models predict that sexual conflict can drive reproductive isolation by decreasing the probability of matings between individuals from allopatric populations. A recent study in dung flies supported this prediction. To test the generality of this finding we used replicate lines of Drosophila melanogaster that had been selected under high, medium and low levels of sexual conflict, in which the females had evolved differences in their level of resistance to male-induced harm. We compared the proportion of virgin pairs that mated by set time points, for flies from the same replicate within each sexual conflict level vs. flies from different replicates within each sexual conflict level. The results did not support the prediction that, in D. melanogaster, sexual conflict drives population divergence via changes in female willingness to mate. The results were unlikely to be explained by differential inbreeding or by a lack of response to sexual conflict.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2010 13:38 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 09:46 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1204 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01107.x |
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