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Measuring and Altering Mating Drive in Male Drosophila melanogaster
Published on: February 15, 2017
Nutrition quality, body size and two components of mating behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
Sofija Pavković-Lucić1, Vladimir Kekić
1Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. sofija@bio.bg.ac.rs
Abstract:
Two components of mating behavior, mating latency and duration of copulation, were investigated in Drosophila melanogaster males from three different "nutritional" strains, reared for more than 35 generations on banana, tomato and cornmeal-agar-yeast substrates. Males from different strains did not differ according to mating latency and duration of copulation. Also, the sizes of males from different strains did not contribute to these behavioral traits.

