Nutrition quality, body size and two components of mating behavior in Drosophila melanogaster.
Two components of mating behavior, mating latency and duration of copulation, were investigated in Drosophila melanogaster males from three different "nutritional" strains, reared for more than 35 generations on banana, tomato and cornmeal-agar-yeast substrates. Males from different strains did not differ according to mating latency and duration of copulation. Also, the sizes of males from different strains did not contribute to these behavioral traits.
Pavković-Lucić
Sofija
S
Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. sofija@bio.bg.ac.rs
Kekić
Vladimir
V
D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D049628:Body Size / Q000502:physiology; D003307:Copulation / Q000502:physiology; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*