| Title: | "Sexual selection, sexual isolation and pheromones in Drosophila melanogaster strains after long-term maintaining on different diets" |
| Author(s): | Trajkovic J; Milicic D; Savic T; Pavkovic-Lucic S; |
| Address: | "University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. Electronic address: jelena.trajkovic@bio.bg.ac.rs. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. University of Belgrade, Institute for Biological Research 'Sinisa Stankovic', 142 Despot Stefan Blvd, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.beproc.2017.04.006 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1872-8308 (Electronic) 0376-6357 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Evolution of reproductive isolation may be a consequence of a variety of signals used in courtship and mate preferences. Pheromones play an important role in both sexual selection and sexual isolation. The abundance of pheromones in Drosophila melanogaster may depend on different environmental factors, including diet. The aim of this study was to ascertain to which degree principal pheromones affect sexual selection in D. melanogaster. We used D. melanogaster strains reared for 14 years on four substrates: standard cornmeal substrate and those containing tomato, banana and carrot. We have previously determined that long-term maintaining of these dietary strains resulted in differences in their cuticular hydrocarbons profile (CHs). In this work, we have tested the level of sexual selection and sexual isolation between aforementioned strains. We found that the high levels of cis-vaccenyl acetate, 7-pentacosene and 7,11-nonacosadiene in the strain reared on a substrate containing carrot affected the individual attractiveness and influenced sexual isolation between flies of this strain and flies reared on a substrate containing banana. Based on these results, long-term different diets, may contribute, to sexual behaviour of D. melanogaster via the effects of principal pheromones" |
| Keywords: | "Acetates Algorithms Alkenes Animals Courtship Daucus carota *Diet Drosophila melanogaster Female Solanum lycopersicum Male Musa Oleic Acids Pheromones/metabolism/*physiology Reproduction/physiology Sex Preselection/*psychology Sexual Behavior, Animal/*phy;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineTrajkovic, Jelena Milicic, Dragana Savic, Tatjana Pavkovic-Lucic, Sofija eng Netherlands 2017/04/19 Behav Processes. 2017 Jul; 140:81-86. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2017.04.006. Epub 2017 Apr 15" |
