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Mating competition in artificial populations of Drosophila melanogaster polymorphic for ebony: II. A test for minority male mating advantage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 April 2009
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Mating competition experiments with D. melanogaster were performed in light and darkness under conditions mimicking those under which artificial populations show a stable polymorphism for the ebony gene (e). In both light and darkness a minority male mating advantage was found for e/ + males in competition with wild-type males, but in light only when ebony was in the majority. Homozygous wild-type males showed minority advantage only in light and ebony males only in darkness.
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