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Mating ability of homo- and heterokaryotypes due to the subterminal (alpha or In (2L)A) inversion in 2L chromosome of Drosophila ananassae from three different natural populations has been studied. The data indicate that the average number of females inseminated by a given male varies for different karyotypes in males and the analysis of variance shows that the differences are highly significant for males in the three populations studied. However, the averages for different karyotypes in females show less variation as compared to males. Thus a striking sex difference exists in D. ananassae. The comparison of mating activity with gene arrangement frequencies in natural populations indicates that the gene arrangement occurring in high frequency is associated with greater mating propensity. These findings suggest that chromosomal polymorphism in D. ananassae may have a partial behavioural basis and males are more subject to intrasexual selection than females.
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Singh, B., Chatterjee, S. Mating ability of homo- and heterokaryotypes of Drosophila ananassae from natural populations. Heredity 57, 75–78 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1986.89
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