Male-male interactions and mating kinetics in Drosophila.
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 in Drosophila. K is expressed as the time males expend on other males relative to that expended while searching for, courting, and copulating with females. The value of K in these studies ranged from 0 (approximately) to .695; it was affected both by strain (sepia or ebony D. melanogaster and wild-type D. simulans) and by size of the mating chamber. Host-parasitoid models of ecologists appear to be appropriate for examining mating kinetics in Drosophila.
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Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061.
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009154:Mutation; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*