New paper: impact of heat stress on male courtship behaviour and mate choice in Drosophila virilis8/9/2023 This week saw the publication of Kwan's first paper from her master's research, supervised by Tom Price and I. Kwan looked at the effect of heat stress on male mating behaviour in the Asian fruit fly species Drosophila virilis. She found that heat-sterilised males don't change their courtship behaviour, but do have reduced mating success. This suggess that females can tell something about male fertility, though we couldn't determine how. Nevertheless, female mate choice might mitigate the population-level cost of heat stress in this species. Please click through to read more!
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