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Australian Journal of Zoology Australian Journal of Zoology Society
Evolutionary, molecular and comparative zoology
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Hybridization between Drosophila setifemur and D. spinofemora.

AM Clark

Australian Journal of Zoology 5(2) 216 - 222
Published: 1957

Abstract

Drosophila setifemur Malloch and D. spinofemora Sturtevant can be hybridized in the laboratory without difficulty. From the cross spinofemora x setifemur, hybrids of both sexes are fertile, but in the reciprocal cross the male hybrids are sterile. In the salivary-gland chromosomes of the hybrids there is no indication of any gross structural differences. Maternal inheritance is suggested as a possible explanation for some physiological differences observed between parent species and the hybrids. A revised systematic description of D. setifemur is presented.

https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9570216

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