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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 268, 期 1469, 页码 789-795出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1420
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reproductive isolation; gametic incompatibility; Drosophila melanogaster; incipient speciation
Reproductive-isolating mechanisms between nascent species may involve sperm-egg recognition and have been best described in externally fertilizing organisms where such recognition is essential in preventing undesirable fertilizations. However, reproductive carriers in internally fertilizing species differ in significant ways, and a direct role for sperm egg interactions has yet to be demonstrated. Females of many strains of Drosophila melanogaster from Zimbabwe, Africa, do not mate readily with cosmopolitan males. This polymorphism in mate choice is postulated to represent incipient speciation. We now report that, in one direction, crosses between the above populations produce far fewer offspring than reciprocal crosses due to a lower rate of egg hatch. We established that egg inviability ill these crosses was due to defects in fertilization. Thus, even in taxa with internal fertilization. gametic incompatibility may be a mechanism relevant to reproductive isolation during incipient speciation.
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