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    • Incipient sexual isolation in thenasuta-albomicans complex ofDrosophila: mating preference in male-, female- and multiple-choice mating experiments

      M T Tanuja N B Ramachandra H A Ranganath

      Volume 26 Issue 3 September 2001 pp 365-371

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    • Keywords

       

      Drosophila ; incipient isolation; mating preference; nasuta-albomicans

    • Abstract

       

      Interracial divergence is an important facet of speciation. Thenasuta-albomicans complex ofDrosophila with sixteen morphologically identical, karyotypically different but cross-fertile races is an excellent system to study a few dimensions of raciation.Drosophila nasuta nasuta, Drosophila nasuta albomicans, Cytorace 1, Cytorace 2, Cytorace 3 and Cytorace 4 of this subgroup have been subjected to male-, female- and multiple-choice mating experiments. Out of 8456 crosses conducted, 7185 had successful matings. The overall impression is that mating is far from random amongst these six closely related races of thenasuta-albomicans complex. The males ofD. n. albomicans, Cytorace 1 and Cytorace 4 in male-choice, the females of Cytorace 1 and Cytorace 2 in female-choice, and the males and females ofD. n. nasuta, D. n. albomicans, Cytorace 1 and Cytorace 4 against the males and females of Cytorace 2 in multiple-choice experiments, had significantly more homogamic matings than expected. Thus in this study of evolutionary experimentation on raciation under laboratory conditions, we have documented the initiation of preference for con-specific matings among closely related and independently evolving members of thenasuta-albomicans complex ofDrosophila.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      M T Tanuja1 N B Ramachandra1 H A Ranganath1

      1. Drosophila Stock Centre, Department of Studies in Zoology, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore - 570 006, India

    • Dates

       
      Published
      September 2001
      Manuscript received
      29 January 2001
      Accepted
      13 July 2001

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