Social effects for locomotion vary between environments in Drosophila melanogaster females

• Published in: Evolution Vol. 71; no. 7; pp. 1765 - 1775
• Main Authors: Signor, Sarah A., Abbasi, Mohammad, Marjoram, Paul, Nuzhdin, Sergey V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley 01.07.2017; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Antagonism; Drosophila; Drosophila melanogaster; Females; Fitness; Gene expression; Genes; Genetic diversity; Genetic effects; Genotypes; Inbreeding; indirect genetic effects; Insects; Locomotion; ORIGINAL ARTICLE; Phenotypic variations; Populations; Reproductive fitness; Sexual dimorphism; Drosophila; indirect genetic effects; locomotion

Despite strong purifying or directional selection, variation is ubiquitous in populations. One mechanism for the maintenance of variation is indirect genetic effects (IGEs), as the fitness of a given genotype will depend somewhat on the genes of its social partners. IGEs describe the effect of genes...