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Digest: The importance of genital morphology in Drosophila copulation *
Author(s) -
Werry Nicholas
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.13621
Subject(s) - biology , mating , drosophila (subgenus) , sex organ , reproductive isolation , introgression , evolutionary biology , zoology , morphology (biology) , genetics , gene , population , demography , sociology
Drosophila is a common model organism in the study of reproductive isolation. In their 2018 work, Tanaka et al. used introgression to substitute D. mauritiana genomic segments into a D. simulans genetic background, creating lines with modified genital structures. These changes were found to significantly alter the copulation duration and motility of mating pairs by influencing genital coupling.