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JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH
Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 135-144Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2004.00246.x
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Drosophila virilis group; quantitative traits; phallos; morphometric analysis
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The shape of the male mating organ differs among 11 closely related species of the Drosophila virilis species group. Multivariate analyses of variation of a suite of 35 morphological traits (indices) describing the phallus shape were carried out in order to characterize interspecies variability of the traits. An overwhelming majority of the traits displayed species-specific variability. The main result of the investigation was the revelation of the differences involved in the traits studied in the evolution of the D. virilis species group. The structure of species-specific variability of some traits was discovered to be in accordance with the generally accepted taxonomy of the species group, while that of other traits required isolation of D. virilisper se from lummei phylad (former virilis phylad), and confirmed separation of montana phylad into three subphylads: montana proper, littoralis and kanekoi. Several subsets of traits having separate variability were determined in different parts of the male mating organ which correspond to spots of evolutionarily significant variability.
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