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Mobility in Tribolium Confusum
Author(s) -
McDonald Daniel J.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.2307/1935545
Subject(s) - biology , mutant , strain (injury) , zoology , ecology , genetics , anatomy , gene
The mobility of adult—flour beetles in their natural environment (a flour medium) was measured for 2 genetic strains and both sexes of Tribolium confusum. (When the sexes were observed separately, the mobility of a mutant and a wild strain did not differ in the males, but in females the mutants were nearly 10 times as mobile as the wild individuals. If males and females of the wild strain are observed together, the mobility of the males appears to approach that of the females.