Research Article

Cuticular Hydrocarbon Content that Affects Male Mate Preference of Drosophila melanogaster from West Africa

Table 1

Relative quantity (% area) of the GC peaks designated in Figure 3. Sample sizes are shown under the strain names. Mean ± S.D. Values are shown.

StrainPeak #1
7:C23a (%)
Peak #2
C23a (%)
Peak #3
7,11:C25a (%)
Peak #4
5:C25a (%)
Peak #5 7,11:C27a (%)Peak #6
5,9:C27a
(+2-methylhexacosane) (%)

TW1 ( )2.65 ± 0.076.44 ± 0.1110.96 ± 1.250.00 ± 0.0046.77 ± 0.612.22 ± 0.08
Mel6 ( )0.00 ± 0.000.00 ± 0.000.00 ± 0.002.67 ± 0.057.54 ± 6.5358.77 ± 5.18
BZ1 ( )2.46 ± 0.318.64 ± 0.993.95 ± 0.070.00 ± 0.0052.11 ± 0.333.06 ± 0.42
Mel6 × TW1 F1 ( )0.00 ± 0.004.43 ± 0.091.85 ± 0.021.98 ± 0.0625.60 ± 0.3419.55 ± 0.30

aCuticular hydrocarbon components inferred from the previous studies [28, 29].