Publication Date:
1999-01-08
Description:
In several organisms, the success of a male's sperm in multiply inseminated females depends on the male's genotype. In Drosophila, the female also plays a role in determining which sperm are successful. Pairwise tests among six isogenic lines of Drosophila melanogaster were performed to determine whether there is a genotype-specific interaction in the success of sperm. The success of a particular male's sperm was found to depend on the genotype of the female with which he mates, providing evidence for an interaction with profound evolutionary consequences.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Clark, A G -- Begun, D J -- Prout, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jan 8;283(5399):217-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. c92@psu.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9880253" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Analysis of Variance
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Animals
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*Biological Evolution
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Computer Simulation
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Drosophila melanogaster/genetics/*physiology
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Female
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Genetic Variation
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Genotype
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Male
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Models, Biological
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Sex Characteristics
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*Sexual Behavior, Animal
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Spermatozoa/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
