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Title: Developmental temperature, body size and male mating success in fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
Authors: Pavković Lučić, Sofija 
Kekić, Vladimir
Keywords: Body size;Developmental temperature;Drosophila melanogaster;Drosophilidae;Mating success
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2013
Rank: M22
Journal: European Journal of Entomology
Volume: 110
Issue: 1
Start page: 31
End page: 37
Abstract: 
Body size is one of the most investigated traits in studies of sexual selection in fruit flies of the genus Drosophila. In D. melanogaster, size has often been correlated with male mating success, i.e. larger males were more successful in achieving copulations both in laboratory and field conditions. In the present paper, we investigated if male body size is a sexually selected trait in competitive conditions, when full-sibs that developed at two different temperatures (18 and 25°) competed for females. Males developed at a lower temperature were significantly larger than those reared at a higher temperature, but they were not more successful in mating. We conclude that when body size is significantly induced by temperature variability, it is not correlated with male mating success.
URI: https://biore.bio.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/512
ISSN: 1210-5759
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2013.004
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