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Science 18 September 1981:
Vol. 213. no. 4514, pp. 1405 - 1407
DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4514.1405
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Mating Preferences Are Not Predictive of the Direction of Evolution in Experimental Populations of Drosophila

THERESE ANN MARKOW 1

1 Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85281

The general applicability of two models used in predicting evolutionary directions from asymmetry in reproductive isolation was tested in the laboratory. In mate preference tests with strains of Drosophila melanogaster whose ancestral and derived relationships were known, no correspondence was found between sexual isolation and direction of evolution.

Submitted on April 15, 1981


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