INVESTIGADORES
SOTO Ignacio Maria
artículos
Título:
Phenotypic variation of male external genitalia of Drosophila serido species (D. repleta group, D. buzzatii cluster)
Autor/es:
FRANCO, FERNANDO; SOTO, IGNACIO; FABIO SENE,; MAURA MANFRIN,
Revista:
NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY
Editorial:
Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil
Referencias:
Año: 2008 p. 558 - 563
ISSN:
1519-566X
Resumen:
Drosophila serido Vilela &
Sene is a polytypic and cactophilic species with broad geographic
distribution in Brazil. The morphology of the aedeagi of eight natural
populations of D. serido was analyzed. Based on features of their aedeagi, populations of D. serido
were discriminated with an efficiency of nearly 75%. The analysis using
the Mantel test suggests that the morphological divergence of D. serido is
correlated with the geographic distance among populations. There is no
single cause to explain the observed pattern; therefore, the results
were discussed considering the three main hypotheses to explain the
aedeagus evolution: lock and key, pleiotropy and sexual selection. Alternatively, the aedeagus variability of D. serido might be related to environmental causes, such as temperature and/or host cacti.