Characterization of pheromones and courtship behaviour of desert dwelling drosophilids (mulleri complex).

• Main Author: Koh, Qi Ling.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Evolution
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48695
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Pheromones are chemical compounds that mediate social behaviour and are believed to play an important role in speciation. The species from the Drosophila mulleri complex provide excellent models to study speciation because their populations are widely distributed and exist in sympatry and allopatry....