Rare-male mating advantage in Drosophila ananassae 英文参考文献.docVIP

Centre of Advanced Stu.dy in Zoology, Genetics Laboratory, Banaras Hindu University, l!aranasi 221 005, India (received 5 April 1989; accepted 30 August 1989) Summary - Minority-male mating advantage is aphenomenon whereby genetic variability can be maintained in populations without genetic load at equilibrium. advantage has been shown to be a widespread phenomenon in Drosophila, although it is seen to be absent in some species. During the present investigation, experiments were conducted to study the mating success of wild type and mutant males at different ratios in the Elens-Wattiaux mating chamber using sepia and cardinal mutant stocks and a wild- male effect in D. ananassae. In all the experiments males were tested separately with sepia and cardinal mutants. Experiments were conducted at 9 different ratios. The results of males are equally successful in mating when present in the same ratio, they are more successful in mating when in a minority. This advantage when the males become common. Thus the Résumé - L’avantage au male rare aux males de génotypes minoritaires, à l’occasion des appariements, est un phénomène chez Drosophila ananassae. L’avantage donné susceptible de maintenir une variabilité génétique sans induire de fardeau génétique absent dans certaines espèces. Le succès à l’appariement de males de type sauvage et de mutants a été étudié en utilisant la technique du choix par la femelle, avec neuf proportions et de mutants sepia étaient testés de males ont des succès équivalents quand ils sont présents dans la même proportion, et qu’ils sont favorisés quand ils sont minoritaires. L’avantage d’un type dispara?t quand il devient commun. Frequency-dependent selection occurs when the selective value of a given genotype depends on its frequency. Frequency-dependent selection may be positive in favour of the common type, or negative in favour of the rare type. One of the most interesting and best studied examples of this frequen