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The Evolutionary Ecology of Drosophila

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Evolutionary Biology

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In this review I have attempted to summarize a number of topics with which I am familiar that have significance for the field of evolutionary ecology. Since a good deal of this work includes laboratory studies, the following section provides a detailed description of the ecology of Drosophila (usually melanogaster) in the laboratory environment. This is followed by a section on the population dynamics of Drosophila, with particular attention paid to sources of bias that are inherent in certain experimental techniques. The next section considers the mechanisms and evolution of intra- and interspecific competition. This is followed by a section examining tradeoffs and correlations in Drosophila life-history traits and the consequences of density-dependent natural selection. The last section summarizes a rapidly growing literature on the habitat and oviposition preference of Drosophila. Several recent reviews touch upon areas of the ecology and evolution of Drosophila that I will not address (Parsons, 1980, 1981; Barker and Starmer, 1982). In this review I have attempted to develop a critical review of certain major topics and, I hope, unify certain disparate observations rather than be comprehensive in my citations. To all those whose work I have failed to cite I offer my apologies.

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