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Courtship and Mating Behaviour of Interspecific Nasonia Hybrids (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae): A Grandfather Effect

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Nasonia courtship behaviour includes easily quantifiable, stereotyped components. We analysed displays of N. vitripennis × N. longicornis hybrid males. Most of them performed well-organised displays that were intermediate between the parental species. However, in both reciprocal crosses, a significant bias towards the behaviour of the grandpaternal species was observed. Possible explanations for this effect are a biased recovery of genotypes, either due to nucleo-cytoplasmic interaction or non-mendelian transmission, or differential activation of genes in hybrid females. This study is a first step towards unravelling the genetic architecture of courtship behaviour of Nasonia, which may provide information about factors responsible for species isolation.

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Beukeboom, L.W., van den Assem, J. Courtship and Mating Behaviour of Interspecific Nasonia Hybrids (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae): A Grandfather Effect. Behav Genet 31, 167–177 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010201427204

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