Different diets can affect attractiveness of Drosophila melanogaster males via changes in wing morphology
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Drosophila melanogaster Strains
For this experiment, we used flies collected from the natural population in 2000. Since then, the flies have been maintained for 350 generations in laboratory conditions on five different substrates: standard cornmeal substrate (St strain) and substrates containing tomato (T strain), banana (B strain), carrot (C strain) and apple (A strain). Strains were reared in conditions optimal for the species (25 °C, 300 lx, 60% humidity, 12 h of light, 12 h of darkness). Substrates containing fruits and
Mating Success
According to the results of Z tests (Table 1), males from the T strain achieved significantly more matings than males from the standard substrate and substrates containing banana, carrot and apple. Males from the B strain achieved significantly more matings than males from the St, C and A strains. Further, males from the C strain achieved significantly more matings than males belonging to the St and A strains. Males from the St strain achieved more matings than males from the A strain, but this
Discussion
Our results showed that males from the T strain had the highest mating success of all the strains, while males from the A strain had the lowest. Female choice was correlated with male wing size, and females of all strains preferred males with larger wings. Apart from that, we observed differences in wing size between the strains and found that wing size was correlated with the type of diet. Males from the T and B strains had larger wings than males from the St, C and A strains. Among all the
Declaration of Interest
None.
Acknowledgments
This work was funded by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Contract numbers 451-03-68/2020-14/200178 and 451-03-68/2020-14/200007). We are highly grateful to Mr Raymond Dooley for his help in preparing the English version of the manuscript. We thank the editor and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions.
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