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. 1990 May;20(3):405-21.
doi: 10.1007/BF01065566.

Male-male interactions and mating kinetics in Drosophila

B Wallace  1
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Male-male interactions and mating kinetics in Drosophila

B Wallace. Behav Genet. 1990 May.

Abstract

Male-male interaction (K) has been estimated from data on the attrition rate of virgin females per minute in a study of the mating kinetics in Drosophila. K is expressed as the time males expend on other males relative to that expended while searching for, courting, and copulating with females. The value of K in these studies ranged from 0 (approximately) to .695; it was affected both by strain (sepia or ebony D. melanogaster and wild-type D. simulans) and by size of the mating chamber. Host-parasitoid models of ecologists appear to be appropriate for examining mating kinetics in Drosophila.

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