title: Evidence for no sexual isolation between Drosophila albomicans and D. nasuta.
abstract: Sexual isolation, the reduced tendency to mate, is one of the reproductive barriers that prevent gene flow between different species. Various species-specific signals during courtship contribute to sexual isolation between species. Drosophila albomicans and D. nasuta are closely related species of the nasuta subgroup within the Drosophila immigrans group and are distributed in allopatry. We analyzed mating behavior and courtship as well as cuticular hydrocarbon profiles within and between species. Here, we report that these two species randomly mated with each other. We did not observe any sexual isolation between species or between strains within species by multiple-choice tests. Significant difference in the courtship index was detected between these two species, but males and females of both species showed no discrimination against heterospecific partners. Significant quantitative variations in cuticular hydrocarbons between these two species were also found, but the cuticular hydrocarbons appear to play a negligible role in both courtship and sexual isolation between these two species. In contrast to the evident postzygotic isolation, the lack of sexual isolation between these two species suggests that the evolution of premating isolation may lag behind that of the intergenomic incompatibility, which might be driven by intragenomic conflicts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, 30322 ; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, Virginia, 20147.
authors.forename: Yong-Kyu
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Dennis R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tao
keywords: Courtship; D. albomicans; D. nasuta; cuticular hydrocarbons; mating behavior; speciation
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