Effect of larval crowding on adult mating behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster

Ribó, Griselda; Ocaña, Jordi; Prevosti, A.

doi:10.1038/hdy.1989.92

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“…Previous studies (e.g. Ribó et al ., ; Shenoi et al ., ) show that the reproductive (adult) phase of D. melanogaster can be greatly affected by the developmental (larval) phase. Larval density affects adult life‐history traits like body size (Miller & Thomas, ; Nagarajan et al ., ), fecundity (Alpatov, ; Pearl, ), lifespan (Miller & Thomas, ; Economos & Lints, ; Zwaan et al ., ) and reproductive success (Ribó et al ., ).…”

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“…Ribó et al ., ; Shenoi et al ., ) show that the reproductive (adult) phase of D. melanogaster can be greatly affected by the developmental (larval) phase. Larval density affects adult life‐history traits like body size (Miller & Thomas, ; Nagarajan et al ., ), fecundity (Alpatov, ; Pearl, ), lifespan (Miller & Thomas, ; Economos & Lints, ; Zwaan et al ., ) and reproductive success (Ribó et al ., ). Males that develop under low larval density emerge as larger individuals, have higher mating success, mate at a faster rate and remate more often compared to smaller males that emerge from crowded cultures (Partridge & Farquhar, , ; Partridge et al ., , b; Turiegano et al ., ; Wigby et al ., ).…”

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Local adaptation to developmental density does not lead to higher mating success in Drosophila melanogaster

Shenoi

Prasad

2016

J of Evolutionary Biology

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In this study, we investigate the effect of local adaptation to developmental density on male mating success in laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Mating success is known to be influenced by body condition which can in turn be influenced by local adaptation. We test the hypothesis that males adapted to a given environment have higher mating success when assayed in that environment. We used males selected for adaptation to high larval density and their controls which are reared at low larval density. We grew assay males in low and high densities whereas the focal females (raised at low larval density) used for the experiment belonged to the common ancestor of selected and control populations. We considered selected males grown at high density and control males grown at low density as 'adapted'. Similarly, we considered selected males grown at low density and control males grown at high density as 'nonadapted'. Selected male belonging to a given treatment (larval density) was made to compete with control male of the same treatment for mating with ancestral female. We quantified components of reproductive fitness: mating latency, copulation duration, mating success and number of progeny sired by the 'adapted' and 'nonadapted' males. The results show that local adaptation does not lead to higher mating success in populations adapted to their own larval rearing environment.

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Local adaptation to developmental density does not lead to higher mating success in Drosophila melanogaster

Shenoi

Prasad

2016

J of Evolutionary Biology

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“…In the third generation, at a low frequency of the l167/+ genotype, genetic drift may act toward elimination of the mutation, if the population size is low; a high frequency of the mutation would involve frequencydependent selection acting to maintain the mutation [17,19,20] as well as mechanisms related to increasing fitness of l167/+ individuals.…”

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The Effect of Male Mating Competitiveness, Developmental Rate, and Viability of Larvae and Pupae in Drosophila melanogaster Heterozygous for the Temperature-Sensitive Lethal Mutation l(2)M167 DTS on the Dynamics of the Mutation Elimination from the Population

2005

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The dependence of selection on an introduced mutation l(2)M167 DTS on male mating competitiveness, viability, and developmental rate of larvae and pupae of Drosophila melanogaster , heterozygous for this mutation, was examined in population experiments with preset conditions. The limitations of fitness parameters of individuals l(2)M167 DTS /+ relative to individuals +/+ were estimated according to the conditions of the experiment and phenotypic characteristics of the mutation studied. Under conditions of limited food supply and dependence on emergence time in each generation, the sequence of female mating was shown to be of less importance than the order of medium utilization by the progeny of a certain genotype related to the male success in the first mating. The limiting factors acting on the l(2)M167 DTS mutation were viability and developmental rate. GENERAL GENETICS

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“…It is considered in numerous studies to be a broadly variable trait [28,29] exposed to many factors difficult to account for [30][31][32][33]. By now, some genetic systems and mechanisms have been determined that control viability of D. melanogaster developing under different conditions [34][35][36][37] and involve in some cases male competitiveness [38] and female fecundity [39].…”

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Determination of Fitness Components of Flies Bearing the Recessive Lethal l(2)M167 DTS Mutation with Dominant Heat Sensitivity in Artificial Drosophila melanogaster Populations

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Elimination of the heat-sensitive l (2)å167 DTS mutation from artificial Drosophila melanogaster populations at constant temperature 25 ° C and various frequencies of the mutation in the parental generation was studied. Components of fitness of the l (2)å167 DTS mutation were estimated in the artificial populations by means of the recurrent model of the dependence of the frequency of this mutation in a given generation on its frequency in the previous generation. The model was solved by a numerical method with limitations on the values of some fitness components obtained in test experiments. According to the limitations and frequencies of the l (2)å167 DTS mutation, the leading role and limits of the variation in egg-to-adult viability and female fertility were determined. The previously suggested effect of the positive selection for viability of individuals heterozygous for l (2)å167 DTS was confirmed.

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Effect of larval crowding on adult mating behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

Local adaptation to developmental density does not lead to higher mating success in Drosophila melanogaster

Local adaptation to developmental density does not lead to higher mating success in Drosophila melanogaster

The Effect of Male Mating Competitiveness, Developmental Rate, and Viability of Larvae and Pupae in Drosophila melanogaster Heterozygous for the Temperature-Sensitive Lethal Mutation l(2)M167 DTS on the Dynamics of the Mutation Elimination from the Population

Determination of Fitness Components of Flies Bearing the Recessive Lethal l(2)M167 DTS Mutation with Dominant Heat Sensitivity in Artificial Drosophila melanogaster Populations

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