Premating Isolation Is Determined by Larval Rearing Substrates in Cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis. IV. Correlated Responses in Behavioral Isolation to Artificial Selection on a Life‐History Trait

@article{Etges1998PrematingII,
  title={Premating Isolation Is Determined by Larval Rearing Substrates in Cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis. IV. Correlated Responses in Behavioral Isolation to Artificial Selection on a Life‐History Trait},
  author={William J. Etges},
  journal={The American Naturalist},
  year={1998},
  volume={152},
  pages={129 - 144}
}
  • W. Etges
  • Published 1 July 1998
  • Biology
  • The American Naturalist
Studies of behavioral isolation among geographically isolated populations of Drosophila mojavensis have provided an understanding of incipient speciation wherein phylogeny and ecology play a prominent role. Populations of D. mojavensis in mainland Mexico and southern Arizona exhibit low but significant premating isolation from Baja California populations in laboratory mate choice tests. These same populations have undergone considerable life‐history evolution in response to use of different… 
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Sexual isolation among populations was much stronger than sexual selection within these populations of D. mojavensis, and was mediated by epicuticular hydrocarbons (EHCs), contact pheromones in this system.

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TRANSCRIPTOME‐WIDE EXPRESSION VARIATION ASSOCIATED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL PLASTICITY AND MATING SUCCESS IN CACTOPHILIC DROSOPHILA MOJAVENSIS

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