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Male-male interactions and mating kinetics inDrosophila

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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 inDrosophila. K is expressed as the time males expend on other males relative to that expended while searching for, courling, and copulating with females. The value of K in these studies ranged from 0 (approximately) to. 695; it was affected both by strain (sepia orebony D. melanogaster and wild-typeD. simulans) and by size of the mating chamber. Host-parasitoid models of ecologists appear to be appropriate for examining mating kinetics inDrosophila.

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Work reported here was supported by Grant GM34576, National Institute of General Medical Science, U.S. Public Health Services.

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Wallace, B. Male-male interactions and mating kinetics inDrosophila . Behav Genet 20, 405–421 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01065566

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