Decay of Female Sexual Behavior Under Parthenogenesis
- 1 October 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 218 (4567) , 68-70
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.218.4567.68
Abstract
A laboratory strain of Drosophila mercatorum has existed for 20 years without males and therefore without natural selection operating to maintain the genetic basis of female mating behavior. The females of this strain have recently experienced a genetic impairment of mating capacity. This observation exemplifies the mode of evolution of vestigial characters and supports Muller's theory that random mutation will tend to destroy the genetic basis of a character from which selection has been removed.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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