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Age and sex-ratio expression in Drosophila mediopunctata
1Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Genetica
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The sex-ratio trait--production of progenies with excess of females due to X-linked meiotic drive in parental males--has a variable expression in Drosophila mediopunctata. We tested the effect of male age and found that aging increases the expression of sex-ratio, a fact relevant for the interpretation of field data and for experimental design.
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