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Fertility, mating behaviour and sexual selection in Drosophila subobscura. J. Genet. 1956, 54, 261-279.
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What maintains signal honesty in animal colour displays used in mate choice
TL;DR: How a costly signalling framework has shaped empirical research in mate choice for colourful male ornaments is reviewed and it is emphasized that alternative interpretations are plausible under an index signalling framework.
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Females prefer the scent of outbred males: good-genes-as-heterozygosity?
TL;DR: The findings support the idea that females are more attracted to outbred males, and they suggest that such preferences may be stronger among inbred than outbred females, which is consistent with the 'good-genes-as-heterozygosity' hypothesis.
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Humans as a model species for sexual selection research.
TL;DR: Recent studies of visual trait dimorphism suggest that human appearance reflects adaptation for multi-level societies, rather than high levels of polygyny, and poses challenging puzzles for future research.
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Evolution of reproductive isolation as a by‐product of divergent life‐history evolution in laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster
TL;DR: It is shown that two complementary asymmetric isolating mechanisms, likely mediated by divergence in body size, underlie the evolution of incipient reproductive isolation between a set of Drosophila melanogaster populations selected for rapid development and their ancestral controls, reaffirming the belief that prezyGotic isolation can evolve much earlier than postzygotic isolation.
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Age-based mate choice in the monandrous fruit fly Drosophila subobscura
TL;DR: It is suggested that age-based preference by females can be consistent across populations with very different environments, even when those populations differ in other key mating-related traits such as offspring production and copulation duration.
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The Courtship of Drosophila Melanogaster
Margaret Bastock,Aubrey Manning +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that inhibition while accumulating, interacts with excitation and it is fluctuations in the resultant 'effective excitation' which determine the courtship pattern.
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Natural selection for reproductive isolation between drosophila pseudoobscura and drosophila persimilis
TL;DR: One of the most imiportant problems in the study of speciation has been that of the origin of reproductive isolating mechanisms, for it is by the building up of intrinsic barriers which prevent gene exchange between poptilations that the authors pass from the racial or subspecific to the specific level.
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The Bearing of the New Systematics on Genetical Problems The Nature of Species
TL;DR: This chapter deals with some aspects of animal taxonomy and discusses the nature of species, which are the natural units characterized by their reproductive isolation from other such units.
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Genetics and cytology ofDrosophila subobscura: II. Normal and selective matings inDrosophila subobscura
TL;DR: 1. Cardinal inDrosophila subobscura, now called vermilion, is homologous with Vermilion inD. melanogaster, and poppy maroon implants are pinker in wild-type hosts.
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The genetics and cytology ofDrosophila Subobscura
Jean M. Clarke,J. Maynard Smith +1 more
TL;DR: The length, of imaginal life is given for two inbred lines of Drosophila subobscura, and for the reciprocal hybrids between them, and the expectation of life at eclosion of hybrids is approximately twice that of inbred flies.